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Robert Louis ELKINS, Appellant, v. the STATE of Texas, Appellee

1983-03-30 · Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas · United States

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9 judgments have relied on it, across 1983–1991

first 1983 · last 1991 · busiest 1985 (4 judgments)

1991-06-19Patrick Logan MONTGOMERY, Appellant, v. the STATE of Texas, AppelleeCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas×2 1987-05-20Herman Ray CANTRELL, Appellant, v. the STATE of Texas, AppelleeCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas 1986-04-23Bobby TEMPLIN, Appellant, v. the STATE of Texas, AppelleeCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas 1985-10-23Donald J. ROBINSON, Appellant, v. the STATE of Texas, AppelleeCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas×2 1985-10-09Bobby James MOORE, Appellant, v. the STATE of Texas, AppelleeCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas 1985-06-19Jeffrey D. PLANTE, Appellant, v. the STATE of Texas, AppelleeCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas 1985-04-24Lester BOUTWELL, Appellant, v. the STATE of Texas, AppelleeCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas 1983-12-21Clyde WILLIAMS, Jr. & David Lee Smith, Appellant, v. the STATE of Texas, AppelleeCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas×2 1983-04-06Lonnie Quincy PRIOR, Appellant, v. the STATE of Texas, AppelleeCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas

What it rests on

1982-12-15Leroy BATES, Appellant, v. the STATE of Texas, AppelleeCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas 1980-09-24Carlos Rene RUBIO, Appellant, v. the STATE of Texas, AppelleeCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas 1980-02-06Sam R. SANDERS, Jr., Appellant, v. the STATE of Texas, AppelleeCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas 1979-12-19Oscar CARRILLO, Appellant, v. the STATE of Texas, AppelleeCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas 1979-10-10James Alvin MURPHY, Appellant, v. the STATE of Texas, AppelleeCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas 1978-12-13Ray Leroy MULCHAHEY, Appellant, v. the STATE of Texas, AppelleeCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas 1978-11-01Virgil John ETCHIESON, Appellant, v. the STATE of Texas, AppelleeCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas 1978-06-21Jessie Ray JONES, Appellant, v. the STATE of Texas, AppelleeCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas 1975-03-12Charles Anthony REDD, Appellant, v. the STATE of Texas, AppelleeCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas 1974-01-16Robert Earl RANSOM, Appellant, v. the STATE of Texas, AppelleeCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas 1972-09-25Ira ROGERS, Jr., Appellant, v. the STATE of Texas, AppelleeCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas 1972-03-22Robert CALDWELL, Appellant, v. the STATE of Texas, AppelleeCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas

7 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.