Torres v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

11 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “A defendant may not be convicted of an offense under Chapter 481, Health and Safety Code, on the testimony of a person who is not a licensed peace officer or a special investigator but who is acting covertly on behalf of a law enforcement agency or under the color of law enforcement unless the testimony is corroborated by other evidence tending to connect the defendant with the offense committed.... Corroboration is not sufficient for the purposes of this article if the corroboration only shows the commission of the offense.”

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

2. “whether the other inculpatory facts and circumstances in evidence tend to connect appellant to the offense.”

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