Gamboa 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. ““The evidence against appellant was strongly circumstantial. While the circumstances strongly suggested his guilt, there was no direct evidence of the fac-tum probandum. No one saw appellant fire the fatal shots. Nor was there direct evidence that the bullet which killed the deceased came from the weapon later taken from appellant. Under such circumstances, Texas law requires that a charge on circumstantial evidence be given.” Gamboa v. State, supra, at 248.”

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