Wallen v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

18 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Interpreting the rules as a whole and giving effect to their general aim of limiting reversals to cases wherein there is prejudicial error, it is proper for the court of appeals, in a cause in which the trial judge has erroneously failed to make findings, either (i) to overrule the point of error based upon the trial judge’s failure, if from the record it is clear that no prejudice resulted; or (ii), if the error is not shown to be harmless, to order the trial judge to file findings of fact and conclusions of law, together with such supplemental and additional findings as may be requested by either party and granted by the court, and to certify these to the appellate court.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Brooks v. Housing Authority of the City of El Paso