Carmell v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2025
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.
Relationships
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Brady v. State of Maryland · Kyles v. Whitley · Hopt v. People of the Territory of Utah · Kachina Plywood, Inc. v. Hurt
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A conviction under Chapter 21, Section 22.011, or Section 22.021, Penal Code, is supportable on the uncorroborated testimony of the victim of the sexual offense if the victim informed any person, other than the defendant, of the alleged offense within six months after the date on which the offense is alleged to have occurred. The requirement that the victim inform another person of an alleged offense does not apply if the victim was younger than 14 years of age at the time of the alleged offense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Carmell v. Texas“The statute as amended does not increase the punishment nor change the elements of the offense that the State must prove. It merely `removes existing restrictions upon the competency of certain classes of persons as witnesses' and is, thus, a rule of procedure. Hopt v. Utah, 110 U.S. 574 , 590 _ (1884).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Carmell v. Texas“there was nothing to corroborate [the victim's] version of events,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Carmell v. Texas
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.