Tamez v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently September 2016
8 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 175th Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act)
Relies on Old Chief v. United States · Garcia v. Dial · Warren v. State · State v. Klein · Williams 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The indictment or information shall be read to the jury by the attorney prosecuting. When prior convictions are alleged for purposes of enhancement only and are not jurisdictional, that portion of the indictment shall not be read until the hearing on punishment is held as provided by Article 37.07.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Tamez v. State · State v. Mewbourn“convicted two times of an offense relating ...”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Gibson v. State · Tamez v. State“Although relevant, evidence may be excluded if its probative value is substantially outweighed by the danger of unfair prejudice ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Mewbourn
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.