Ex Parte Sanchez’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently May 2014 · most notably Ex Parte Chambers (1995), in Re the Office of the Attorney General (2013)
29 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas Court of Appeals, 13th District)
Relationships
Relies on Ungar v. Sarafite · Bloom v. Illinois · Ex Parte Winfield Scott · Ex Parte Helms · Ex Parte Cardwell
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“contempt proceedings are quasi-criminal in nature,” such proceedings "should conform as nearly as practicable to those in criminal cases.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.