Paredes v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 federal appellate · 78 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 83 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “(a) A person is criminally responsible for an offense committed by the conduct of another if; (1) acting with the kind of culpability required for the offense, he causes or aids an innocent or nonresponsible person to engage in conduct prohibited by the definition of the offense; (2) acting with intent to promote or assist the commission of the offense, he solicits, encourages, directs, aids, or attempts to aid the other person to commit the offense, ....”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Abraham Linares v. State · Stanton Wayne Yates v. State

2. “(a) A person is criminally responsible for an offense committed by the conduct of another if: [[Image here]] (2) acting with intent to promote or assist the commission of the offense, he solicits, encourages, directs, aids, or attempts to aid the other person to commit the offensef.] [[Image here]] (b) If, in the attempt to carry out a conspiracy to commit one felony, another felony is committed by one of the conspirators, all conspirators are guilty of the felony actually committed, though having no intent to commit it, if the offense was committed in furtherance of the unlawful purpose and was one that should have been anticipated as a result of the carrying out of the conspiracy.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Zamora, Jaime Arturo · Jaime Arturo Zamora v. State

3. “Appellant must realize that it is precisely the quality which we describe as “powerful” which gives rise to his arguments that the photographs are prejudi-cially inflammatory. But when the power of the visible evidence emanates from nothing more than what the defendant has himself done we cannot hold that the trial court has abused its discretion merely because it admitted the evidence. A trial court does not err merely because it admits into evidence photographs which are gruesome.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Jett v. State · Estrada v. State