Sledge v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
80 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 81 later decisions — most recently March 2024 · most notably Jefferson v. State (2006), Wright v. State (2000)
80 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 Adams v. State · Thomas v. State · Arcila v. State · Scoggan v. State · Crawford 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 81 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is well settled that the 'on or about' language of an indictment allows the State to prove a date other than the one alleged in the indictment as long as the date is anterior to the presentment of the indictment and within the statutory limitation period.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Garcia v. State · Bien v. State“The Defendant, Stevie Lavaughn Walker, stands charged by indictment with the offense of aggravated sexual assault of a child, alleged to have been committed in Tarrant County, Texas, on or about the 1st day of September, 1992. To this charge the Defendant has pleaded not guilty. A person commits the offense of aggravated sexual assault if ... and the victim is younger than 14 years of age. [[Image here]] You are further charged as the law in this case that the State is not required to prove the exact date alleged in the indictment, to-wit: September 1, 1992, but may prove the offense, if any, to have been committed at any time prior to the presentment of the indictment, as long as said offense, if any, occurred within ten (10) years of the date of the presentment of the indictment ... [[Image here]] Now, if you find from the evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that the Defendant, Stevie Lavaughn Walker, in Tarrant County, Texas, on or about the 1st day of September, 1992, did then and there intentionally or knowingly cause the sexual organ of S.L., a child younger than 14 years of age who was not the spouse of said Defendant to contact the mouth of said Defendant; or if you find from the evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that the Defendant, Stevie Lavaughn Walker, in Tarrant County, Texas, on or about the 1st day of September, 1992, did then and there intentionally or knowingly cause the sexual organ of S.L., a child younger than 14 years of age who was not the spouse of said”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Walker v. State“when an indictment alleges that an offense occurred `on or about' a particular date, the State is not bound by the date alleged, and may prove any offense of the character alleged, within the period covered by the applicable statute of limitations.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Garcia v. State
How this case has been treated — in progress
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