Carpenter v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently August 2018
9 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 365th Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · United States v. Matlock · Bumper v. North Carolina · National Union Fire Insurance v. Helfand · Almanza 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“there was danger that allowing such cross-examination would confuse the jury, or tempt it to use the facts developed in an improper way”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Carpenter v. State“trial `commences' at the same point that double jeopardy attaches that is, on the day the jury is sworn”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Sanchez v. State“the day the trial is scheduled to start,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Sanchez 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.