Chavez v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

10 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “It is the State's burden to prove that the offense charged occurred in the county identified in the charging information. Venue must be proven by a preponderance of the evidence and may be established by cireumstantial evidence. The State has met its burden if the facts and circumstances of the case permit the jury to infer that the crime occurred in a given county. This Court treats a claim of insufficient evidence of venue in the same manner as other claims of insufficient evidence. Accordingly, we neither reweigh the evidence nor assess the credibility of witnesses, and look only to the evidence and the reasonable inferences to be drawn therefrom which support the conclusion of requisite venue.”

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

2. “(allthough the State presented evidence of other overt acts that might support a conviction of conspiracy, it is reasonably possible that the jury used the same evidence to establish the essential elements of both murder and conspiracy to commit murder[;]”

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

3. “[Wle cannot logically conclude that the legislature meant to substitute the RICO offense for the underlying predicate offenses rather than to permit prosecution for RICO in addition to prosecution for the predicate offenses.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. People v. Hoover