Henage v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “. . said defendant was admonished by the court of the consequences of said plear, and the said defendant persisted in pleading guilty, and it plainly appearing to the court that the said defendant is sane, and that he is uninfluenced in making said plea by any consideration of fear or by any persuasion or delusive hope of pardon prompting him to confess his guilt, the said plea of guilty is by the court received, . . .””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. King v. State

2. ““In accepting appellant’s plea, the court did so in practically the same words as are set forth in our opinion in Alexander v. State, 163 Tex.Cr.R. 53 , 288 S.W.2d 779 , and which we held failed to properly admonish the accused of the consequences of his plea as required by Article 501, Vernon’s Ann.C.C.P.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Williams v. State

3. “there is no certification that all the court said in admonishing the defendant appears in the statement of facts.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Bosworth v. State