Mayfield v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
December 2017
most recently cited
10 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 124th Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Oyler v. Boles · Clewis v. State · Johnson v. State · Watson v. State · Brooks 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The statute does not require high-speed fleeing, or even effectual fleeing. It requires only an attempt to get away from a known officer of the law. Thus, under the law, fleeing slowly is still fleeing.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rush 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.