Lindley v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently August 2009
6 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 · Adams v. State · Ferguson v. State · Johnson v. State · Drumm 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.
“A search warrant may be issued to search for and seize: [[Image here]] (8) any property the possession of which is prohibited by law; (9) implements or instruments used in the commission of a crime; (10) property or items, except the personal writings by the accused, constituting evidence of an offense or constituting evidence tending to show that a particular person committed an offense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Scott v. State“There is at said suspected place and premises property concealed and kept in violation of the laws of Texas and described as follows: Amphetamine and Methamphetamine and equipment, chemicals and other devices used in its manufacture and production of amphetamine or methamphetamine.”
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.