Peraza v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

30 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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “if the statute under which court costs are assessed (or an interconnected statute) provides for an allocation of such court costs to be expended for legitimate criminal justice purposes, then the stat-hte allows for a constitutional application that will not' render the courts tax gatherers in violation of the separation of powers clause.”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Carlton Charles Penright v. State · Hawkins v. State

2. “The powers of the Government of the State of Texas shall be divided into three distinct departments, each of which shall be confided to a separate body of magistracy, to wit: Those which are Legislative to one; those which are Executive to another, and those which are Judicial to another; and no person, or collection of persons, being of one of these departments, shall exercise any power properly attached to either of the others, except in the instances herein expressly permitted.”

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

3. “the administration of our criminal justice system.”

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