State v. Meyer’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently January 2020
5 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 Breazeale v. State · State v. Johnson · State v. Evans · State v. Savage · Rodriguez 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]e hold that withdrawing the mistrial order was not a viable option for the trial court. A court’s authority to act is limited to those actions authorized by constitution, statute, or common law. State v. Johnson, 821 S.W.2d 609, 613 (Tex. Crim. App. 1991). In determining the nature of the trial court’s actions, we look to the effect rather than the label applied to the matter by the court or parties. State v. Evans, 843 S.W.2d 576, 577 (Tex. Crim. App. 1992). We conclude that the trial court’s judgment is actually the dismissal of a prosecution. Generally, a trial court has no authority to dismiss a case unless so requested by the prosecutor. Johnson, 821 S.W.2d at 613 . There are, however, certain exceptions to that rule. A criminal case can be dismissed without the State’s consent when (1) a speedy trial has been denied, (2) the charging instrument is defective, or (3) article 32.01 of the Code of Criminal Procedure has been violated. Id. at 612 n.2. However, none of the exceptions apply in this case. Having concluded that the trial court’s judgment is actually the dismissal of a prosecution, we hold that the State is entitled to appeal under Code of Criminal Procedure article 44.01(a). We hold that the trial court did not have the authority to dismiss the prosecution in this case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Johnson 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.