Carpenter v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““In Hamilton v. State, 480 S.W.2d 685 [Tex.Cr.App.], this Court stated the rule applicable to the situation presented in the instant case: “ ‘On direct examination, appellant made the blanket claim that he had “never been inside a burglary before, I didn’t know nothing about how to rob or nothing.” On cross-examination he reiterated this statement whereupon the prosecutor questioned him concerning other robberies in which he was identified as a participant. The extraneous offense became admissible in rebuttal to appellant’s blanket claim that he had never been involved in a robbery before. Davis v. State, Tex.Cr. App., 478 S.W.2d 958 (1972); Kemp v. State, 157 Tex.Cr.R. 158 , 247 S.W.2d 398 ; Alexander v. State, Tex.Cr.App., 476 S.W.2d 10 (1972).’ “In the case at bar the testimony quoted above constituted a blanket claim that appellant had never asked Green to buy any LSD at the pool hall in Jacksonville, thus authorizing evidence of an extraneous delivery of LSD at that pool hall in rebuttal. ... ” Id. at 123 and 124.”

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