Rodriguez v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently March 2024
2 federal appellate · 7 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 Hunter v. Fort Worth Capital Corp. · Cheney v. State · Mills v. State · Stewart v. State · Jones 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) Except as authorized by this chapter, a person commits an offense if the person knowingly or intentionally ... delivers, or possesses with the intent to ... deliver a controlled substance listed in Penalty Group l. 1 [[Image here]] (c) A person commits an aggravated offense if the person commits an offense under Subsection (a) and the amount of the controlled substance to which the offense applies is, by aggregate weight, including adulterants or dilutants, 28 grams or more. (d) An offense under Subsection (c) is: [[Image here]] (3) punishable by confinement ... for life or for a term of not more than 99 years or less than 15 years, and a fine not to exceed $250,000, if the amount of the controlled substance to which the offense applies is, by aggregate weight, including adulterants or dilutants, 400 grams or more.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Whitfield 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.