Taylor v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently October 2013
16 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 282nd Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · In Re King's Estate · Clewis v. State · Geesa v. State · Transportation Insurance Co. v. Moriel
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Such an explanation by the defendant must be made when first called upon directly or circumstantially to do so, which could include the time of his arrest, [citations omitted] The State is not required to refute an explanation made for the first time at trial. Espinosa v. State, 463 S.W.2d 8, 10 (Tex.Crim.App.1971); [additional citations omitted].”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Havard 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.