Lopez v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 186th Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Davis v. Alaska · Pointer v. Texas · Alford v. United States · Maryland v. Craig · Mattox v. United States
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“based in part on the case worker's conclusion that there was no corroborative evidence of physical abuse and also because P.M.'s mother was very cooperative in seeking counseling to help her deal with P.M.'s behavior.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Lopez v. State“She found that P.M. was unable to tell her what a”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lopez 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.