Porier v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

19 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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““. . .As this Court pointed out in Phariss v. State, 149 Tex.Cr.App. 489 , 196 S.W.2d 826 , in rejecting a like contention, the State in alleging the prior convictions was not seeking to again convict the defendant, but was merely seeking to enhance his punishment for the offense for which he was then on trial in the event of conviction. The provisions of the Article do not create an offense, inflict additional punishment for a prior offense, or authorize a conviction on a habitual criminal charge; they merely prescribe more severe punishment based on persistence in crime. 16 Tex.Jur.2d, Secs. 403 and 404, pp. 624 and 625.””

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

2. “the evidence is insufficient to prove the facts necessary for enhancement to life imprisonment....”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Bullard v. Estelle

3. “defective in some fundamental respect, e.g., incorrect receipt or rejection of evidence”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Bullard v. Estelle