Ex Parte Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
March 1992
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Landry v. State · Minix v. State · Ex Parte Guzman
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.
“That the writer no longer agrees with the original Minix opinion, as explicated in my dissenting opinions in Minix on State’s motion for rehearing and today in Landry on appellant’s motion for rehearing, is of no moment. The Court en banc has clearly declared the law and I must and do defer to its judgment.” In Ex Parte Morren, 587 S.W.2d 427, 428, n. 3 (Tex.Cr.App.1979), Judge Clinton includes essentially the same comment. In McFarland v. State, 605 S.W.2d 904, 906 (Tex.Cr.App.1980), Judge Clinton writes in his concurrence”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ex Parte Porter
How this case has been treated — in progress
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