Mendoza v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

9 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Now if you find from the evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that on the occasion in question the Defendant, Johnny Robert Windham, did intentionally or knowingly or recklessly cause bodily injury to Jerry Turnbow by cutting him with a knife, but you further believe from the evidence, or you have a reasonable doubt thereof, that the Defendant did not intend to kill the said Jerry Turnbow, then you will find the Defendant guilty of an aggravated assault; or, if at the time and place aforesaid, you find from the evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that Defendant made an assault upon Jerry Turnbow by cutting him with a knife and inflicted upon him serious bodily injury, but you further find from the evidence that the Defendant did not intend to kill the said Jerry Turnbow, or if you have a reasonable doubt thereof, then you will find the Defendant guilty of an aggravated assault.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Young v. State · Windham v. State