Ex Parte Douthit’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “This is not to say that any and every mandatory criminal procedural statute will invariably set up an absolute or fundamental feature of the system, not optional with the parties....”

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

2. “[w]hen older precedent conflicts with a new decision that is found to be more soundly reasoned, we may resolve the inconsistency in favor of the more soundly reasoned decision.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Ex parte Johnson

3. “Legislature has thus far left the question of what is cognizable in a post-conviction writ of habeas corpus to this Court's interpretation”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Ex parte Johnson