Ex parte Beckham’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. ““[Article 51.13, Section 3, V.A.C.C.P.] provides that the Governor may not issue his warrant unless there are sufficient papers to support the issuance of the warrant. An ‘information supported by affidavit’ is sufficient to support the warrant. The Governor’s warrant, which is regular on its face, states that appellant is charged by ‘information, supporting affidavit, warrant.’ ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Ex parte Hernandez