108 Tex. Crim. 561 - Marshall v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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3 state decisions

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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Evidently the jury did not believe defendant’s explanations, nor accord to the evidence introduced in his behalf much weight. With this exercise of the jury’s discretion we cannot interfere. “On the cold record the evidence against the defendant does not appear very strong, but upon a careful analysis of it we cannot say it was not sufficient to justify the jury in concluding beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant is guilty as charged.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Priestley