O'BRIANT v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently August 2007
16 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 Harris v. Oklahoma · Gholson v. State · Holloway v. State · Cunningham v. State · Mosley 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We find ‘firearm’ to be far less vague and general than the word ‘gun.’ It could reasonably be urged that the word ‘gun’ is broad and general enough to include such diverse instrumentalities as a ‘BB gun,’ a ‘blow gun,’ a ‘pop gun,’ or even a ‘grease gun.’ Clearly the word ‘firearm’ has a much more limited meaning.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Peterson v. State · Colon v. State““Any device designed, made, or adapted to expel a projectile through a barrel by using the energy generated by an explosion or burning substance or any device readily convertible to that use. . . . ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Nelson v. State“"(a) A person commits an offense if he commits robbery as defined in Section 29.02 of this code, and he “(2) uses or exhibits a deadly weapon.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gomez 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.