Ex Parte Taylor’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 30 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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The district attorney argues finally that he and the State Prosecuting Attorney should be allowed to file separate petitions because they have different interests: he wants to win only one case, while the State Prosecuting Attorney has to look out for all the cases of all the prosecutors of the state. We emphatically disagree. The State of Texas has only one, indivisible interest in a criminal prosecution: to see that justice is done.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Saldano v. Dretke

2. “In every appeal, such decisions must be made as whether to appeal, ... what points to raise[,] whether to confess error, ... whether to seek further review and on what grounds. Some one person must make these decisions; there cannot be conflicting decisions.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Saldano v. Roach

3. “A district or county attorney may assist the state prosecuting attorney in representing the state before the court of criminal appeals”). . See Tex.Code Crim. Proc. art. 2.01 (”

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