Taylor v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

13 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Admittedly, a search of AOL records indicated that “MENU441” somehow “comes back to” [the defendant] who lived at a specified address. Yet, that [the defendant] utilized or had assigned to him the screen name when the transmission was sent, that he owned or otherwise maintained a computer or computer related equipment at the locale, that he had the capability of accessing AOL from the address, that the transmissions came from a particular computer or internet related equipment at [the defendant’s address], or that others could not use the screen name appeared nowhere in [the Texas Ranger’s] affidavit or its attachments. Furthermore, we do not think it reasonable to infer the presence of those indicia simply because a search of AOL records 1) attributed the screen name to [the defendant] at one time or another and 2) contained the address eventually searched. 87”

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