Butler, Billy Dean’s Empirical Analysis
2015
Citation profile
7 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas Court of Appeals, 13th District)
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Haldeman · 134 S. Ct. 2473 - Riley v. Cal. United States · Carmouche v. State · Tienda, Ronnie Jr. · 151 Ohio App. 3d 36 - State v. Brown
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it is the jury's role ultimately to determine whether an item of evidence is indeed what its proponent claims; the trial court need only make the preliminary determination that the proponent of the item has supplied facts sufficient to support a reasonable jury determination that the proffered evidence is authentic.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Fowler v. State“that a text message emanates from a cell phone number assigned to the purported author ... without more[ ] has [not] typically been regarded as sufficient to support a finding of authenticity,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.