Ex parte Burns’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Art. 10a ... provides that before a defendant who has no attorney can agree to waive a jury the court must appoint an attorney to represent him. This provision is mandatory and applies whether the defendant is indigent or not. Failure to comply renders the conviction void”). . Appellant states in his Petition for Discretionary Review that”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Ex Parte McCain