Brooks v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably Pena v. State (2006), Perry, Ex Parte James Richard "Rick" (2016)
55 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 Ex Parte Patterson · Ex Parte Beck · Luken v. State · McCambridge v. State · Brooks 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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Article 27.01 provides that an indictment is the State’s “primary pleading in a criminal action” (emphasis added). By inference, the statute indicates that other, ancillary pleadings by the State are possible, and in fact, we have recognized that certain matters, such as the intent to seek a deadly weapon finding, may be pled apart from the indictment. Article 21.03 provides that “[everything should be stated in an indictment which is necessary to be proved.” We have interpreted that provision to mean that an indictment must include “everything necessary to be proven to sustain a conviction in the guilt/innocence phase ” of a trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.