Ex Parte Williams’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 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. “Merely because the county court at law has jurisdiction of a case does not mean that only the county court can grant an applicant habeas corpus relief. The Code of Criminal Procedure provides that any judge of the district court has the power to issue a writ of habeas corpus. This means that a district judge may hear a writ of habeas corpus and grant relief even though an indictment for the offense is pending in the county court.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Ex Parte Chavfull

2. “The [UDJA] is purely a creature of civil law. It has no application in criminal proceedings. Moreover, we are aware of no authority that requires a defendant who is asserting a statute is unconstitutional to serve the [AG].”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. STATE, OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GEN. VS. JUSTICE CT. (ESCALANTE)