Vennus v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

9 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[WJithout the evidentiary scaffolding provided by the Rules [of Evidence], all evidence is admissible, all evidence is relevant and the discretion wielded by the trial court is discretion incapable of abuse. * * * Under the majority's reading of the law, there is now nothing to prevent a trial court from deciding the merits of a suppression motion by relying exclusively on an unsworn police report or lab report. No longer must an expert witness at a suppression hearing be qualified. Tex.R. Evid. 702. Nor must the State continue to burden itself by marshaling witnesses who have personal knowledge of the events about which they are testifying. Tex.R. Evid. 602. Taking the majority's holding to its logical extreme, if the trial judge wished to save time, he could simply call himself as a witness and testify in support of the existence of probable cause by reading a newspaper account of the arrest into the record. Tex.R. Evid. 605.”

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

2. “This case presents a situation where [Vennus] is 'making an appellate error of an action [he] induced.'”

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