Garza v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
72 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently September 2011 · most notably Smith v. State (1984), Janecka v. State (1987)
72 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 Drumm v. State · Haecker v. State · Terry v. State · Cruise v. State · Amaya 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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the actual or constructive transfer from one person to another of a controlled substance ... [and] includes an offer to sell a controlled substance.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Washington 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.