Hacker, Anthony Wayne’s Empirical Analysis

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28 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “If, for example, John has a motive for murdering Mary, but there is no evidence that Mary is dead (much less evidence that her death was a homicide), then John’s motive is meaningless. His motive alone does not establish that a murder occurred, and the motive cannot link John to a murder without evidence that there was a murder. Motive alone is not even some evidence of a murder that could be used to revoke John’s probation.”

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

2. “motive alone is not sufficient to corroborate the testimony of an accomplice”); Ex parte Goodbread, 967 S.W.2d 859, 864 (Tex.Crim. App.1998) (quoting Leal for proposition that an indictment”

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