Hamilton v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

11 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"On direct examination, appellant made the blanket claim that he had `never been inside a burglary before, I didn't know nothing about how to rob or nothing.' On cross-examination he reiterated this statement whereupon the prosecutor questioned him concerning other robberies in which he was identified as a participant. The extraneous offense became admissible in rebuttal to appellant's blanket claim that he had never been involved in a robbery before. Davis v. State, Tex. Cr.App., 478 S.W.2d 958 (1972); Kemp v. State, 157 Tex.Cr.R. 158 , 247 S.W.2d 398 ; Alexander v. State, Tex.Cr.App., 476 S.W.2d 10 (1972)."”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Carpenter v. State · Heckert v. State

2. ““Now, therefore, if you find and believe from the evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant did commit the offense of robbery by firearms as alleged in the indictment, but you further find that Payne had threatened to kill the defendant if he did not participate in the robbery, and that his acts and words were calculated to intimidate a person of ordinary firmness and that they did lead defendant to believe that Payne would take his life or do serious bodily injury if he did not participate in the robbery, and that so believing, he did, you will acquit the defendant, or if you have a reasonable doubt on such issue, you will say by your verdict ‘not guilty.’ “If, however, after viewing the facts from the defendant’s standpoint at the time, you believe from the evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant did not have a reasonable expectation or fear of death or of receiving serious bodily injury at the time he committed the robbery, if he did, you will find against him on his plea of duress.””

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