Scott v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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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. ““[ajppellant’s claim here (on appellant’s motion for rehearing) is that the State presented no evidence whatsoever in support of its properly plead tolling allegations in the indictment. Accordingly, in our opinion upon original submission, we were in error in not considering this issue as unassigned error in the interest of justice.” (emphasis supplied).”

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

2. “"While this court does not ordinarily consider the question of sufficiency of the evidence to support a conviction as unassigned enror under Sec. 13 of Art. 40.09, supra, we will do so, in view of appellant's claim that ... there was no evidence [upon one of the essential elements of the State's burden of proof].” (Emphasis in original)”

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

3. “... appellant urges that our prior holding was erroneous in that we should have considered in the interest of justice the sufficiency of the evidence with regard to the State’s burden of proof to show that the prosecution in the instant case was not barred by the relevant statutes of limitation, [citations omitted]”

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