Villegas v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““At the hearing on the motion Houston police officer J. J. Davis testified that on June 30, 1972, he obtained a search warrant for apartment G7 at 8282 Park Place Boulevard in Houston, and when he arrived no one was at home. Later, he explained that both appellants approached the premises, that he stopped them and asked Pedro Villegas if his name was ‘Pete’ and that Pedro replied ‘Yes.’ After showing the appellant the warrant, Davis related Pedro Villegas used a key and admitted the officers into the apartment. Testifying, Pedro Ville-gas admitted that he was sometimes called as ‘Pete,’ but he was not only known by this name. His brother corroborated such testimony. Both appellants testified they lived on the premises in question, but were not Latin Americans as that term is used to describe those from Central and South America, and they had never heard the term used to describe a Mexican or a Chicano. “Under the circumstances, we find no error in the court’s action in overruling the motion to suppress.” Villegas v. State, supra at 315 and 316. Also see Turner v. State, 543 S.W.2d 629 (Tex.Cr.App.).”

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