Sample v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently July 2000
4 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 · Cumbie v. State · Phillips v. State · United States v. Meneses-Davila · Rains 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“prevent and obstruct I.D. Phillips, a person that Defendant knew to be a peace officer from effecting the arrest of the [sic] Rayford Odell Sample, by striking I.D. Phillips with his fist.” Sample v. State, 626 S.W.2d 515, 517 (Tex.Crim.App.1982) (op. on reh’g). The Court held that the quoted language constituted”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Tullous 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.