Leal v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

24 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““It is true that appellant’s counsel made a valiant effort to have the offense report attached to the record at the time of the court’s refusal to allow inspection, but failed to take any action thereafter to have it incorporated in the appellate record. “To have permitted the offense report to have been laid out in the record at the time it was requested, even for the purpose of the bill of exception alone, would have permitted the appellant to accomplish indirectly what he had been unable to do directly in view of the court’s ruling.” Leal v. State, supra (concurring opinion at p. 739 of 442 S.W.2d).”

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