Baldwin v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

15 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “(1)intends to cause serious bodily injury, then (2) commits an act clearly dangerous to human life, that (3) causes the death of an individual.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Flanagan v. State · Ned v. State

2. ““The testimony was in conflict and the jury as the trier of fact resolved this conflict against the appellant. The jury may accept or reject any or all of the testimony and determine the weight to be given to it. This is the jury’s function as fact finder.” Lombardo v. State, 503 S.W.2d 780 (Tex.Cr.App.1974); Pope v. State, 505 S.W.2d 556 (Tex.Cr.App.1974); Garcia v. State, 522 S.W.2d 203 (Tex.Cr.App.1975); Adami v. State, 524 S.W.2d 693 (Tex.Cr.App.1975).”

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

3. ““Since the appellant makes no complaint about the sufficiency of the indictment we do not reach the question of whether an indictment for attempted murder must specify murder . . . .””

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