129 Tex. Crim. 438 - Bryant v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

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. ““We are of the opinion that a private citizen who has without authority invaded the premises of another and taken therefrom any article belonging to such other person, without his consent and with intent to appropriate it to his own use and benefit, has small ground upon which to claim that the party in possession can not legally hold or use same, and that therefore the taker may appropriate same to his own use and benefit.””

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