Casey v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

12 state decisions

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

1. ““In his written confession, appellant admitted that ‘in the latter part of May of this year (1973)’ he and Clifton Currie left a motel room in Dallas together and, using a .32 caliber pistol, committed a robbery at a Gulf or Exxon service station ‘out north’ close to a big freeway, shot the attendant (not named or identified), took between sixty and seventy dollars from the cash box, and drove back to the motel. There is nothing in the statement to identify the service station or the attendant who was shot or the date of the shooting other than as just stated. There is no fingerprint evidence in the record. Although the confession admits to guilt of a robbery and shooting, there is nothing in it which directly connects appellant with the murder of Richard Allen O’Neill. The ultimate fact of whether appellant, either by his own act or as a principal with another, killed deceased, was not established by any direct evidence. Such evidence was necessary to avoid a charge on circumstantial evidence. Crawford v. State, Tex.Cr.App., 502 S.W.2d 768 ; Hielscher v. State, Tex. Cr.App., 511 S.W.2d 305 ; Powell v. State, Tex.Cr.App., 494 S.W.2d 575 ; Blankenship v. State, Tex.Cr.App., 481 S.W.2d 147 ; 31 Tex.Jur.2d, Instructions, Sec. 123, p. 689. See Parker v. State, Tex.Cr.App., 492 S.W.2d 590 . Cf. Hogan v. State, Tex. Cr.App., 496 S.W.2d 594 .” Id., at 660 .”

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

2. ““The direct evidence sufficiently proved the corpus delicti of the offense. The remaining element of proof essential to the State’s case was that appellant was the guilty agent in causing deceased’s death. Self v. State, Tex.Cr.App., 513 S.W.2d 832 [1974]; Brantley v. State, Tex.Cr.App., 522 S.W.2d 519 (1975).” 523 S.W.2d, at 659 .”

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