Ex parte Mitcham’s Empirical Analysis
2018
Citation profile
2 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 1st Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Broadrick v. Oklahoma · Ashcroft Attorney General v. Free Speech Coalition · United States v. Stevens · Virginia v. Hicks
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Court in [ Ex parte ] Lo seems to have discounted to an important degree, the language in Section 33.021(b) which focused on the intentional involvement of minors in the 'arous[al] or gratif[ication] of sexual desires' by way of the delivery to them of sexually explicit materials, and chose to focus instead simply on the content of the speech at issue.”
2 later decisions 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.