Posey v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably Brewster v. State (1980), Cruise v. State (1979)
43 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 American Plant Food Corporation v. State · Terry v. State · 144 Tex. Crim. 270 - Reeves v. State · 86 Tex. Crim. 450 - Kennedy v. State · 97 Tex. Crim. 219 - Bush 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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"It is not a criminal offense to obtain a controlled substance for a friend or family member by presenting to a pharmacist a prescription prescribing a controlled substance for that friend or family member which had been properly obtained." Id. at 164 .”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Ex Parte Holbrook · Scott v. State““. . . did unlawfully: then and there knowingly and intentionally acquire and obtain possession of a controlled substance, namely: PHENMATRAZINE by misrepresentation, fraud, deception, and subterfuge, in that he, the said defendant, did then and there present to Dwayne Wallace, a pharmacist, a prescription for said controlled substance, said prescription purportedly to prescribe said controlled substance for Tina Hall.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rejcek v. State“under Section 4.09(a)(3) of the Controlled Substances Act. In the instant case the allegation of rape by force or threats is not subject to any interpretation other than that described in the statute. Appellant's second ground of error referring to the insufficiency of the evidence to show penetration is raised in a pro se document which is captioned”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Watson 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.