Scharbrough v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
7
cited by 7 later decisions
1
states following
March 1994
most recently cited
7 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Dickens v. Court of Appeals for the Second Supreme Judicial District of Texas · Cotton v. State · Baggett v. State · State Ex Rel. Vance v. Hatten · Howard 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The legislature clearly and unambiguously drafted both article 42.12 and article 6701/-1. As such, we are without authority to change the specific terms of the statute and must confine our interpretation to a reasonable construction of the language used in the statute as written.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Truett v. State · Griffin v. State“If it is shown on the trial of a person punished for an offense under Subsection (c), (d), or (e) of this article that the person committed the offense and as a direct result of the offense another person suffered serious bodily injury, the minimum term of confinement for the offense is increased by 60 days and the minimum and maximum fines for the offense are increased by $500. [emphasis added]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wilson v. State“A person commits an offense if the person is intoxicated while driving or operating a motor vehicle in a public place....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wilson 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.