Iglehart v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

31 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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[U]nderlying conduct in question to determine whether: (1) there is conduct constituting an offense ...; (2) the defendant has already been prosecuted for the offense; and (3) this ‘criminal conduct’ will be used to establish an essential element of the offense charged at the subsequent prosecution.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Ex parte Johnson · Cotton v. State

2. “[f]ew, if any, limitations are imposed by the Double Jeopardy Clause on the legislative power to define offenses.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Vick v. State · Vineyard v. State

3. “BRENDA SUE BAILEY, hereafter styled the Defendant, heretofore on or about and between APRIL 28, 1995 and JANUARY 11, 1996, did then and there unlawfully, with intent to establish, maintain and participate in a combination and in the profits of a combination, said combination consisting of Ralph F. Schnur, Charles Francis Coleman, John Allen Babin, Brenda Sue Bailey, and James Arnold Schnur, while a public servant, namely, an employee of Brazos County, commit the offense of theft, in that she did, pursuant to one scheme and continuing course of conduct, unlawfully appropriate property, by acquiring and otherwise exercising control over property, namely, money, owned by the City of Houston, hereafter called the Complainant, and the total value of the property appropriated was fifteen hundred dollars or more but less than twenty thousand dollars, with intent to deprive the Complainant of the property, and the property came into the Defendant’s care, custody and control by virtue of the Defendant’s status as a public servant. JOHN ALLEN BABIN, hereafter styled the Defendant, heretofore on or about [and] between OCTOBER 25, 1993, AND DECEMBER 21, 1996, did then and there unlawfully, with intent to establish, maintain and participate in the combination and in the profits of a combination, said combination consisting of Ralph F. Schnur, Charles Francis Coleman, John Allen Babin, Brenda Sue Bailey, and James Arnold Schnur, commit the offense of theft, in that he did, pursuant to one ”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Ex Parte Bailey v. State