Matlock, Marcus Dewayne’s Empirical Analysis

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20 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “that no reasonable jury was free to think otherwise,”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Mark Ken Tafel v. State · Mark Ken Tafel v. State

2. “When an appellant asserts that there is no evidence to support an adverse finding on which []he had the burden of proof, we construe the issue as an assertion that the contrary was established as a matter of law. We first search the record for evidence favorable to the finding, disregarding all contrary evidence unless a reasonable factfinder could not. If we find no evidence supporting the finding, we then determine whether the contrary was established as a matter of law.”

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

3. “"Under a legal sufficiency challenge, we credit evidence favorable to the challenged finding and disregard contrary evidence unless a reasonable fact finder could not reject the evidence. * * * Under a factual sufficiency challenge, we consider all of the evidence presented to determine if the [juvenile] court’s finding is so against the great weight and preponderance of the evidence as to be clearly wrong or unjust.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Moon, Cameron