Sanchez v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

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

1. ““[T]he State offered no evidence ... of any conduct on appellant’s part, from which it can be inferred that appellant ‘enticed’ or ‘persuaded’ Sanchez to come to his house. Even if the evidence before us is sufficient to establish that appellant knowingly ‘took’ Sanchez from her parents’ custody, the record contains no evidence of an intent on appellant’s part to interfere with the parents’ lawful custody. We conclude that the trial court abused its discretion in finding that appellant violated the terms of § 25.04.””

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

2. “A person commits an offense if, with the intent to interfere with the lawful custody of a child younger than 18 years, he knowingly entices, persuades or takes the child from the custody of the parent or guardian or person standing in the stead of the parent or guardian of such child.”

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