Brister, Mark Randall’s Empirical Analysis

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10 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “(1) the object was something that in the manner of its use or intended use was capable of causing death or serious bodily injury; (2) the weapon was used or exhibited during the transaction from which the felony conviction was obtained; and (3) other people were actually endangered.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Clark v. State · Jeffery Lynn Pruett v. State

2. “a firearm or anything manifestly designed, made, or adapted for the purpose of inflicting death or serious bodily injury”), . See id. §§ 22.01(a)(3) (“intentionally or knowingly causes physical contact with another when the person knows or should reasonably believe that the other will regard the contact as offensive or provocative”), 22.02(a)(2) (“A person commits an offense if the person commits assault as defined in § 22.01 and the person.... uses or exhibits a deadly weapon during the commission of the assault.”). , See id. § 30.05(d)(3)(B) (”

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

3. “[o]ur duty, as a reviewing court, is not to reweigh the evidence from reading a cold record but to act as a 'due process safeguard ensuring only the rationality of the factfinder.'”

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