Hayden v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently April 2018
18 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 337th Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · National Union Fire Insurance v. Helfand · MacArthur Co. v. Johns-Manville Corp. · Thomas v. Southtrust Bank of Alabama · Linn v. United States
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]lthough [the counselor] was the first person the complainant told about the sexual abuse, there is no evidence that the complainant described to her the details of the alleged abuse.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Rosales v. State · In Re ZLB“This article applies only to statements that describe the alleged offense that: (1) were made by the child against whom the offense was allegedly committed; and (2) were made to the first person, 18 years of age or older, other than the defendant, to whom the child made a statement about the offense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Thomas v. State“where the record is void of specific details of statements made by the complainant to an individual, such individual cannot be an outcry witness under article 38.072.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re ZLB
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.