Davis v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently August 2017 · most notably Rosell v. Central West Motor Stages, Inc. (2002), Ex Parte Seidel (2001)
42 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 Archer v. State · Perales v. State · Stine v. State · Kelley v. State · Gallagher 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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although the word "jurisdiction" has a broad meaning in common parlance, and is often used as a synonym for "authority" even in legal writing, it is traditionally considered in the law to identify a much more specific kind of power. A court's jurisdiction is comprised generally of its authority to render a particular kind of judgment (such as an order of commitment or a judgment for money damages) in some kinds of disputes (such as felony criminal prosecutions or personal injury lawsuits) between certain classes of persons (such as everyone present within the state or within a subdivision of the state). There are of course, many other nonjurisdictional aspects of litigation in which the conduct of a court is controlled by law. Sometimes, when the court's conduct violates one of these laws, especially a law which seems "mandatory" on its face, it is common to say that the court did not have authority to act as it did. But it is a mistake to say that the court was without jurisdiction in the matter.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Fain v. State · State v. Moore“[sjtrictly speaking, ... jurisdiction encompasses only the power of the tribunal over the subject matter and the person.” Davis v. State, 956 S.W.2d 555, 558 (Tex.Crim.App.1997). Quoting Judge Meyers’s concurring opinion in Stine v. State, 908 S.W.2d 429, at 434 (Tex.Crim.App.1995), we noted: Although the word”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Ex Parte Seidel · State v. Moore“if a judge is qualified and not constitutionally or statutorily disqualified, his actions are not void due to procedural irregularities ... although it may be error rendering the conviction voidable.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Ex Parte Seidel · Fain 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.