Whitlow v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 6 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Our law provides that a person commits murder if he intentionally or knowingly causes the death of an individual, or intends to cause serious bodily injury and commits an act clearly dangerous to human life that causes the death of an individual. Now if you believe from the evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant, Lee Andrew Moring, did intentionally or knowingly in Walker County, Texas, on or about the 7th day of July 1977, cause the death of Matthew O’Bryant by shooting him with a pistol, or that the defendant did then and there intend to cause serious bodily injury to the said Matthew O’Bryant and with said intent to cause such injury did commit an act clearly dangerous to human life, to wit: shooting the said Matthew O’Bryant with a pistol and causing the death of the said Matthew O’Bryant, then you will find the defendant guilty of murder.” (Emphasis added)”

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