McDaniel v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “(a) A person commits an offense if he commits rape as defined in Section 21.-02 of this code ... and he: (2) compels submission to the rape by threat of death, serious bodily injury, or kidnapping to be imminently inflicted on anyone.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Lonnie Ray Norman v. O.L. McCotter Director, Texas Department of Corrections

2. “"The indictment is fundamentally defective as it pertains to the aggravated rape count because it fails to allege any threat of serious bodily injury was to be imminently inflicted."”

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

3. “fundamentally defective for failure to allege that the threatened harm was to be imminently inflicted”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Norman v. Ol McCotter