Posey v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
138 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 138 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably Ngo v. State (2005), Hall v. State (2007)
138 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 Strickland v. Washington · Almanza v. State · Trident Associates Ltd. Partnership v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. · Guzman v. State · Spencer Gifts, Inc. v. Olitsky
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 138 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a written charge distinctly setting forth the law applicable to the case.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“`harm' standard[s] set out in Article 36.19 [of the Code of Criminal Procedure].”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Taylor v. State · In Re AAB“We are to look to the whole record bearing upon the subject. What was the nature of the testimony supporting the verdict? Was it cogent and overwhelming? What was the character of the testimony presenting the phase or theory of the case omitted to be noticed in the charge, and upon which omission error is assigned? Was it at all reasonable? Did it present a theory which a reasonable mind could entertain, or was it supported by such testimony as was remotely calculated to destroy the State’s case when considered in connection with the other testimony in the case, as well as the charge as a whole?”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Webber 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.