Driggers v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently May 2012
13 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 124th Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Delaware v. Van Arsdall · Herrera v. Collins · Maryland v. Craig · United Transportation Union v. Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority · Clewis 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If there is merit to appellant’s contentions, hearing and granting a motion for new trial at this point is certainly more efficient than requiring this court and the court of criminal appeals to consider an incomplete appeal, then requiring appellant to seek post-conviction relief (which again taxes the resources of the court of criminal appeals) to obtain a new trial many years from now. If there is no merit to appellant's contentions, it is also most efficient to establish that fact now and allow it to be raised on direct appeal following the denial of the motion for new trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Oldham v. State“(1) the newly discovered evidence was unknown or unavailable to the mov-ant at the time of his trial; (2) the movant’s failure to discover or obtain the evidence was not due to a lack of diligence; (3) the new evidence is admissible and is not merely cumulative, corroborative, collateral, or impeaching; and, (4) the new evidence is probably true and will probably bring about a different result on another trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Duke v. State“Rule 2. Suspension of Rules. On a party’s motion or on its own initiative an appellate court may — to expedite a decision or for other good cause shown. — suspend a rule’s operation in a particular case and order a different procedure; but a court must not construe this rule to suspend any provision of the Code of Criminal Procedure or to alter the time for perfecting an appeal in a civil case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Oldham 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.