Lopez v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently January 2011 · most notably Oldham v. State (1998), Angel v. State (1987)
24 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 Breazeale v. State · Carter v. State · Doyle v. State · Sattiewhite v. State · Howeth 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Applying our holding in Carter to the instant case, we find that although not raised prior to appellant’s petition for discretionary review, because we have deemed such Article 1.15, supra, error to be fundamental, this Court has authority to review it now.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Shanks 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.