Rhodes v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
38 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas Court of Appeals, 1st District (Houston))
Relationships
Relies on 22 Cal. 4th 290 - People v. Hester · Prystash v. State · Speth v. State · Long v. State · Heath 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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A defendant who has enjoyed the benefits of an agreed judgment prescribing a too-lenient punishment should not be permitted to collaterally attack that judgment on a later date on the basis of the illegal leniency.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“it could be persuasively argued that a defendant who appeals his conviction has not yet accepted the benefits of the illegal judgment”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Ex parte Macias“challenge! ] to the subject-matter jurisdiction of the court rendering the judgment”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.