Leal v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently September 2012
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 81st Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Clewis v. State · Sanders v. United States · Malik v. State · McDuff 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]f any unnecessary language included in an indictment describes an essential element of the crime charged, the state must prove the allegation, though needlessly pleaded . . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.