Ex Parte Arnold’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently May 2011
13 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.
Relationships
Relies on Perales v. State · Ex Parte Hardin · Ex parte Ratliff · Ex Parte Elmore · Ex Parte Ratliff
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The power to punish for contempt should only be exercised with caution ... also, contempt is not to be presumed, but on the contrary is presumed not to exist. Ex parte Elmore [ 161 Tex. 585 ], 342 S.W.2d 558 . “The burden of proof in a contempt proceeding is ‘beyond a reasonable doubt.’ Ex parte Cragg [ 133 Tex.Cr.R. 118 ], 109 S.W.2d 479 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ex partes Carson
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.