Segundo v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 37 state decisions

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

1. “A distinguishing characteristic is usually the accretion of small, sometimes individually insignificant, details that marks each crime as the handiwork or modus operandi of a single individual.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Casey Birkley v. State of Mississippi · Reed v. State

2. “For example, suppose that three bank robberies are committed over a four-year period in different cities in which the robber used an antique silver crossbow. This seenario is so unusual that it is highly likely that each robbery was committed by the same person using the same antique silver crossbow. This is "the mark of Zorro" mode of proving identity; it is a remarkably unusual fact, in which a single detail suffices to establish identity.”

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

3. “Regarding his argument concerning the potential for abuse, appellant has made no showing that any .such abuse has occurred in the Texas CODIS system, much less that such abuse occurred in his case.”). . Appellant speaks of his willingness”

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