Lebo v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently March 2024
11 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on North Carolina v. Pearce · United States v. Goodwin · Boykin v. State · Ely v. State · Dixon v. Dixon
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A person does not have a constitutional right to appeal a criminal conviction, but if state law does provide for appeal, then ‘a defendant’s right of appeal must remain unfettered.’ ” Lebo v. State, 90 S.W.3d 324, 328 (Tex.Crim.App.2002) (quoting Ex parte Canada, 754 S.W.2d 660, 667 (Tex.Crim.App.1988)), In a footnote, the Lebo court noted that the Canada opinion relied on the Fifth Circuit's holding in Robinson v. Beto that”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.