Drumm v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
79 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 79 later decisions — most recently November 2006 · most notably Thomas v. State (1981), Livingston v. State (1987)
79 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 · Day v. State · Ex Parte Cannon · Adams v. State · Grider 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 79 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. It is not for us to speculate on possible defenses; those are for the accused and counsel to investigate, prepare, and establish if they can. In order to perform that duty, however, the accused is entitled to notice of the particu lar cause for suspension upon which the state will rely. The accused is not required to anticipate any and all variant facts the state might hypothetically seek to establish. When the defendant petitions for sufficient notice of the state’s charge by motion to quash adequately setting out the manner in which notice is deficient, the presumption of innocence coupled with his right to notice requires that he be given such notice. Appellant here was entitled to such notice and his motion to quash was sufficient to point out his need. The motion to quash should have been granted.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Ferguson v. State · Thomas v. State““Although challenge to an accusation for failure to give adequate notice on which to prepare a defense must be asserted in a timely fashion (American Plant Food, supra), when properly asserted with adequate statement of the manner in which notice is deficient, fundamental constitutional protections are invoked. Because of the fundamental notions of fairness that require adequate notice of the nature of the charges against the accused in our system of justice, a timely claim of inadequate notice requires careful consideration.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Labelle v. State · Cook v. State“[O]n or about the 20th day of August A.D., 1992 in the County of Dallas and State of Texas, [appellant] did unlawfully knowingly and intentionally drive and operate a motor vehicle on a public street and highway there situated when defendant had been issued a Texas operator[’]s license, and the said license was then and there suspended by the Texas Department of Public Safety, under the authority and provisions of Art[.] 6701h, Sec[.] 13(a) Vernon’s Annotated Texas Civil Statutes, [ajgainst the peace and dignity of the state.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Smith 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.