Temple v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

16 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The evidence supports a finding that appellant had motive and opportunity to murder Belinda, lied about the reason he was driving north of 1-10 on the afternoon of the murder and about placing [Evan] in a car seat, had a questionable demeanor immediately following Belinda’s death, quickly resumed his relationship with Heather following Belinda’s death, confronted Quinton and Tammy regarding their statements to police and the grand jury, appellant’s house was “staged” to appear as if a burglary had occurred, and appellant and his family were untruthful regarding their shotguns. “While each piece of evidence lacked strength in isolation, the consistency of the evidence and the reasonable inferences drawn therefrom, provide the girders to strengthen the evidence and support a rational jury’s finding the elements beyond a reasonable doubt.” Swearingen v. State, 101 S.W.3d 89, 97 (Tex.Crim.App.2003).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Temple, David Mark

2. “Accordingly, the prosecutor accused appellant of being a liar, not indirectly through a question, but as a matter-of-fact assertion. This action was clearly prosecutorial misconduct.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Coleman v. State