James Alvin MURPHY, Appellant, v. the STATE of Texas, Appellee

1979-10-10 · Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas · United States

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0Departed from

Relied on since

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10 judgments have relied on it, across 1980–1988

first 1980 · last 1988 · busiest 1983 (3 judgments)

What it rests on

1978-11-15Charles Michael FINLEY, Appellant, v. the STATE of Texas, AppelleeCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas 1953-11-11Richard Young v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas 1951-04-04S. C. Couch v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas 1950-03-08Dallas Railway & Terminal Company v. Mrs. Letta M. FarnsworthTexas Supreme Court

13 point outside the corpus. Read from the text, but no judgment held here answers to them. They are counted rather than hidden: this corpus is a slice, not the law.

Departed from

No judgment recorded a departure from this one.

Departure is not detected yet, and the gap is deliberate. Searching for the words the Court might use was measured on 1,019 judgments: "depart from" appears 100 times and most often means departing from the facts found by a domestic court; "overruled" appears 44 times, usually about a domestic judgment; "abandon" appears 123 times, most often as abandoned firearms. Tightened to require the Court itself as the subject, precision was still around 40%, the rest being a dissenting judge complaining, or a national supreme court departing from its own case-law. Telling a lawyer an authority is dead when it is alive is worse than saying nothing, so nothing is what this says until each candidate can be judged properly.

not characterised

Most citations carry no word at all. The Court does not always say what it is doing when it cites one of its own judgments, and where it stayed silent nothing is inferred here.