Alexander v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““IT IS HEREBY agreed and stipulated between respective counsel and the Defendant himself in open court that the foregoing stipulation may be made in the presence of the jury for the purposes of proving facts of the case and elements of the offense: “THAT if the Clerk of the County Criminal Court of Dallas County, Texas, were called and sworn to testify in open court, she would and could testify that on or about February 9, 1962, in Cause No. 71461, styled ‘The State of Texas vs. Robert Delbert Bolin’, that she observed Robert Delbert Bolin who she would and could identify being the Defendant in this cause plead guilty to the misdemeanor offense of Driving and Operating a Motor Vehicle upon a public street or highway in Dallas County, Texas, while he was intoxicated or under the influence of an intoxicating beverage. She would further testify that the County Criminal Court of Dallas County, Texas, had jurisdiction to hear that case, and that judgment became final on February 9, 1962, prior to June 8, 1968.””

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