Sowell v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Appellant’s conviction was affirmed by this Court on January 9, 1974, in a per curiam opinion (No. 48,039). At the time appellant’s conviction was affirmed by this Court no brief had been filed in the trial court in appellant’s behalf, the record was before us without a transcription of the court reporter’s notes, and no questions based on indigency had been raised. “On January 28, 1974, appellant filed a ‘pro se’ motion for leave to file a motion for rehearing, and a pauper’s oath. Therein appellant contends that (1) he is indigent and has been so since the beginning of his appeal, therefore not allowing him to afford an attorney to perfect his appeal to this Court, and (2) that because of his financial condition, he could also not afford to send up the statement of facts. Appellant requests that this Court allow him time so that he may have an attorney appointed for him to further perfect his appeal and that he may be allowed to file a pauper’s affidavit in order that he may send up a statement of facts to this Court. “The issue before this Court is: when the first indication of indigency is made after the record is filed in this Court, will the case be abated for purposes of determining an appellant’s indigency for purposes of appeal ? We answer this question under the facts in the case at bar in the affirmative. “In Steel v. State, 453 S.W.2d 486 (Tex.Cr.App.1970), this Court stated: “ ‘When private counsel is engaged, no duty devolves upon the court to appoint counsel i”

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