Suarez v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently May 2007
22 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 Wilson v. State · Mears v. State · Tellez v. State · Alvarez v. State · Wirges 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(d) Except as otherwise provided by this Act, a person commits an offense if he knowingly or intentionally delivers marihuana. “(e) Except as provided in Subsection (f) of this section, an offense under Subsection (d) of this section is a felony of the third degree. “(f) An offense under Subsection (d) is a Class B misdemeanor if the actor delivers one-fourth ounce or less without receiving remuneration.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Whitaker v. State · Durham v. State““The proper interpretation of these statutory provisions is that (1) delivery of more than one-fourth ounce of marihuana is a felony of the third degree regardless of whether the delivery was for remuneration; (2) the delivery of any amount of marihuana for remuneration is a felony of the third degree; and (3) the delivery of less than one-fourth ounce of marihuana without remuneration is a Class B misdemeanor. Gonzales v. State, Tex.Cr.App., 530 S.W.2d 570 (Nos. 51,166 and 51,167, delivered December 10, 1975).””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Durham v. State · Harris v. State“under the Act. [1] The second count does not allege a felony delivery in that it does not allege an amount of marihuana delivered or whether there was a delivery for remuneration. Nor does the second count allege a felony possession in that it does not allege the possession of a usable quantity of marihuana of more than four ounces. The judgment is reversed and the indictment is ordered dismissed. NOTES [1] Sec. 1.02(8), supra, provides:”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Tovar 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.