In Re Reece’s Empirical Analysis

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54 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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Concurrently with the supreme court, the court of appeals of a court of appeals district in which a person is restrained in his liberty, or a justice of the court of appeals, may issue a writ of habeas corpus when it appears that the restraint of liberty is by virtue of an order, process, or commitment issued by a court or judge because of the violation of an order, judgment, or decree previously made, rendered, or entered by the court or judge in a civil case. Pending the hearing of an application for a writ of habeas corpus, the court of appeals or a justice of the court of appeals may admit to bail a person to whom the writ of habeas corpus may be granted.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In Re Kuster

2. “[Preserve important substantive and procedural rights from impairment or loss, allow the appellate courts to give needed and helpful direction to the law that would otherwise prove elusive in appeals from final judgments, and spare private parties and the public the time and money utterly wasted enduring eventual reversal of improperly conducted proceedings.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. in Re: XTO Energy Inc., Timberland Gathering & Processing Company, Inc., and Bank of America, N.A.

3. “[Djespite the breadth of a court’s contempt power, we have warned it is a tool that should be exercised with caution. As the Court of Criminal Appeals has explained, “[cjontempt is strong medicine” — the alleged contemnor’s very liberty is often at stake — and so it should be used “only as a last resort.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. in Re David A. Chaumette