Dunn v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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

1. ““* * * While it is true that the Legislature, in article 436 C.C.P., lays down four causes which will exonerate the accused and his sureties from liability upon a forfeited bond, and said article states that these causes, ‘And no other,’ will so release them, still this court has in so many cases held that when the so-called indictment was not such in law because of some fundamental failure, from which there flowed as a necessary sequence lack of authority to require any bond at all, that in such cases and upon proper showing of such facts, this court would hold that the parties on such bond, having never been lawfully bound, could not be held to pay same, and we find ourselves constrained to adhere to the doctrine of these cases. * * * .” See also authorities there cited.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 168 Tex. Crim. 537 - Mayberry v. State