Garza v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “And maybe because of someone’s life experience, because they have children or they don’t have children, they think, you know what, any kid, any child, if their head isn’t above this railing when they walk in here, I am not going to believe a word they say. Is there anybody that feels that way? Or maybe just because they are a child, a little person, under this height, that you know what, if you bring somebody in shorter than this-let’s say a particular age, or under seven, under seven, I’m sorry, I can’t believe them.”

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