Byrd 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. “between acts of concealment done in furtherance of the main criminal objectives of the conspiracy, and acts of concealment done after these central objectives have been attained, for the purpose only of covering up after the crime.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Guevara v. State

2. “we couldn't tell nobody [sic]. That if anybody came to him to ask him about it or whatever, he was going to tell them that he was the one that [sic] did it.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Guevara v. State

3. “whether the objectives of the conspiracy to hinder [Guevara]'s apprehension had been attained when [Salinas] made the out-of-court statement.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Guevara v. State