Sledge v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently December 2015
6 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 Garrett v. State · Crawford v. State · Mireles v. State · Ex Parte Alexander · 41 Tex. Crim. 19 - Barfield v. State
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This great latitude given to the State has a rational basis when the victim is a young chüd. A young chüd may make no outcry for several months or even years. When outcry is finaüy made, the chüd often is unable to estabEsh a specific date of the offense but must pinpoint the event by describing it in terms of significant hoE-days, a particular residence, or the circumstances of the offense itself.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hohn v. State“[t]he State clearly informed the defense that those alleged offenses occurred two or three years prior to the date alleged in the indictment and involved two separate events.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sledge v. State“entitled to know what specific act of misconduct [he] was required to defend against.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sledge v. State
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.