Ex Parte Contreras’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[[Image here]] Any delays [in preparing the record] were the result of the difficulty involved in locating the court reporter and having to work through the trial counsel to determine what portions were missing from a record which was poorly organized. The search for the missing portions of the testimony recorded by ... Tatum was conducted by Mr. Tatum going through his notes for the proceeding four or five years several times under the close direction of the court who weekly called Mr. Tatum in to report on his progress. All efforts to find the missing notes have been fruitless. The search for the court reporter who recorded ... Tatum’s testimony [at the punishment phase of the trial] has been carried out exhaustively ... to no avail. All court personnel present at trial have been asked and no one remembers who recorded [this] testimony. The completion of as much of the record as there is has been a mammoth task involving the cooperation of all parties involved. Due diligence was exercised by the Appellant in an attempt to have the transcription of the court reporter’s notes timely filed. The failure to file the transcription of these notes is not in any way due to negligence, laches, or other fault on the part of Appellant or his counsel.””

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