Sanchez v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

13 federal appellate · 37 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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “he could procure witnesses and have forcible process to obtain them in defendant's behalf.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. United States v. Parrino · United States v. Parking

2. ““In the instant case, the attorney who appeared for the defendant was voluntarily employed by him. But it should be taken into consideration that the appellant was only eighteen years old, was a citizen of another country, and, according to the motion for a new trial, ‘did not understand legal procedure and did not understand the English language.’ He employed the attorney who tendered his services to him, naturally believing that he had sufficient experience and enough ability to conduct properly his defense.””

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

3. ““And mere perfunctory action- by an attorney assuming to represent one accused of crime which falls short of presenting the evidence favorable to him and invoking the rules of law intended to prevent conviction for an offense of which the accused is innocent, or the imposition of a penalty more severe than is deserved, should not be tolerated.””

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