Green, Jonathan Marcus’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 6 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. “The trial court shall determine whether, on the basis of reports provided under Subsection (i), the motion, any attached documents, any' responsive pleadings, and any evidence introduced in the final competency hearing, the defendant has established by a preponderance of the evidence that the defendant is incompetent to be executed. If the court makes a finding that the defendant is riot incompetent to be executed, the court may set an’ execution date 'as otherwise provided by law.”

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

2. “[F]or the record, I’m going to state that the most compelling evidence of all was from your own expert ... which shows that you know you are to be executed by the State, you know you are convicted of killing the victim ... you know the execution date, and then you proclaimed your innocence which shows a rational understanding of your imminent date and you know the charges that were against you.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Green v. Thaler

3. “Following the trial court’s determination under Subsection (k) and on motion of a party, the clerk shall send immediately to the court of criminal appeals ... the appropriate documents for that court’s review and entry of a judgment of whether to adopt the trial court’s order, findings, or recommendations issued under Subsection (g) or (k).”

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