Mays v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

12 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““While that portion of the witness’s answer : ‘but the two previous times he showed me a knife and pulled it on me’ was unresponsive and tantamount to evi-' dence of extraneous offenses, no request was made by appellant for an instruction by the court to disregard the testimony. This it was incumbent upon him to do to preserve the error. Perkins v. State, Tex.Cr.App., 213 S.W.2d 681 ; White v. State, 164 Tex.Cr.R. 416 , 299 S.W.2d 151 ; Paredes v. State, Tex.Cr.App. 368 S.W.2d 620 . We do not agree that, under the record, an instruction by the court could not have cured the error. It should also be observed that appellant, by his continued cross-examination of the witness with reference to the two prior occasions she related he came into the store, waived his objection to the testimony. Further, it was appellant rather than the state who elicited the unresppn-sive answer of the witness.””

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

2. “"Mr. Chitwood [defendant's attorney] has talked about what [the witness] said about a conviction without telling you what a conviction is. A conviction means a final conviction when the appeals are over which might take years."”

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

3. ““Q Mrs. Haynes, you say that he took you by the arm to the register, did he have any weapons with him ? “A I didn’t see a knife the last time but the two previous times he showed a knife and pulled it on me.””

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