Rendon v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently June 2001
5 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 Thomas v. State · Jurek v. State · Tarpley v. State · Warren v. State · McCuin 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The grand jurors, for the County of Cameron, State aforesaid, duly organized as such as the July Term, A.D.1988, of the 197th Judicial District Court in and for said County, upon their oaths in said Court, present that John D. Bryson hereinafter called the defendant, on or about the 15th day of August A.D. one thousand nine hundred and eighty-seven and anterior to the presentment of this indictment, in the County of Cameron and State of Texas, did then and there unlawfully, while acting under color of his office as chief of police of La Feria, Texas, take advantage of said official capacity and did intentionally subject Raquel Moreno, a police officer under his supervision, to mistreatment that he knew was unlawful by placing his hand on her buttocks while she was on duty as a police officer for the City of La Feria, Texas ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bryson v. State“For the purposes of this section, a public servant acts under his color of office or employment if he acts or purports to act in an official capacity or takes advantage of such actual or purported capacity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bryson 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.