Colston v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently February 2007 · most notably Amores v. State (1991), Tarpley v. State (1978)
25 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 Terry v. Ohio · Wong Sun v. United States · Aguilar v. Texas · Spinelli v. United States · Henry v. United States
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Federal narcotics in San Antonio request that you bolo 1971 VW Van 71 TX GNP 96 driven oy (sic) 2 wm subjs James Ray Colston and Tom Hutchinson both subjs heavly (sic) armed and believed to be in Waco area or nearing Waco area from El Paso subjs believed to be carrying narcotics no warrants are issued. “Agent Collier Federal Narcotics San Antonio DPS San Antonio GLC 21-1125 DPS SA GLC 22-1018””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Moorman v. State“The test as to probable cause in such cases where the officers act solely upon a request for arrest is the information known to the officer who requests another officer to effect the arrest. Colston v. State, 511 S.W.2d 10, 12 (Tex.Cr.App.1974).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Woodward v. State“A person is arrested when he has been actually placed under restraint or taken into custody by an officer or person... arresting without a warrant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gilmore 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.