Trujillo v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “In [the instant case], the court could have easily rejected any inadmissible testimony by the school teacher and taken judicial notice that Edgewood High School is an accredited school by the state education agency because this fact is easily capable of accurate and ready determination by resort to sources whose accuracy cannot be reasonably questioned. In Gonzales v. State, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals stated that “ ‘the theory of [judicial notice] is that, where a fact is well known by all reasonably intelligent people in the community or its existence is so easily determinable with certainty from sources considered reliable, it would not be good sense to require formal proof.’ ” 723 S.W.2d 746, 751 (Tex.Crim.App.1987) (en banc) (quoting 1 R. Ray, Texas Law of Civil and CRIMINAL Evidence § 151, at 103 (Texas Practice 3d ed.1980)).”

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