Cabla v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

20 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “As punishment, restitution attempts to redress the wrongs for which a defendant has been charged and convicted in court.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Ex Parte Cavazos · Frank Ortegon v. State

2. “First, the court's authority for [the principal motivation test] was a Bankruptcy Court decision, In re Kaping, 13 B.R. 621, 623 (Bkrtcy.D.Or.1981), which predated both the Kelly v. Robinson decision in 1986 and the Congressional alterations of the Bankruptcy Code in 1990.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Drake v. State

3. “would not allow the defendant to be punished ‘for a crime of which [he] was acquitted’ ”); Campbell v. State, 5 S.W.3d 693, 697 (Tex.Crim.App.1999). . See Ex parte Lewis, 892 S.W.2d 4, 6 (Tex. Crim.App.1994) (concluding that because noncomplainants were not”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Nunez v. State