Balentine v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 107 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 110 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Art. 38.23. Evidence not to be used (a) No evidence obtained by an officer or other person in violation of any provisions of the Constitution or laws of the State of Texas, or of the Constitution or laws of United States of America, shall be admitted in evidence against the accused on the trial of any criminal case. In any case where the legal evidence raises an issue hereunder, the jury shall be instructed that if it believes, or has a reasonable doubt, that the evidence was obtained in violation of this Article, then and in such event, the jury shall disregard any such evidence so obtained.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Morris v. State · Pruneda v. State

2. “review the evidence in a light most favorable to the trial court's ruling and assume that the trial court made implicit findings of fact supported in the record.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Montanez v. State · Wolf v. State

3. “Reasonable suspicion exists if the officer has specific, articulable facts that, when combined with rational inferences from those facts, would lead him to reasonably conclude that a particular person actually is, has been, or soon will be engaged in criminal activity.”

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