Aldrich v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Judge Dean: What the police and the prosecutor claim happened is that you went over to a motel in Mesquite and claimed to be a police officer so the clerk would let you in to one of the rooms, and that’s true, is that correct? Appellant: Yes, sir. I had already been in the room. Judge Dean: Right. But you wanted to get back in the room, and you thought if you claimed to be a police officer, they’d let you back in the room without asking a bunch of questions. Appellant: Yes, sir.”

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

2. ““The evidence reasonably and fairly raised issues as to appellant’s guilt and [Judge Hampton] should have determined whether appellant was guilty before sentencing her. He erred in failing to do so.” [[Image here]] “[Judge Hampton’s] choice of words and the sequence of events that transpired can be logically explained only by concluding [he] erroneously believed appellant already had been adjudicated guilty and he had no power to decide otherwise.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Aldrich v. State

3. “(1) the actor reasonably believes the conduct is immediately necessary to avoid imminent harm; (2) the desirability and urgency of avoiding the harm clearly outweigh, according to ordinary standards of reasonableness, the harm sought to be prevented by the law proscribing the conduct; and (3) a legislative purpose to exclude the justification claimed for the conduct does not otherwise plainly appear.”

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