Thompson 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. “Having overruled Appellant’s second and fourth issues on appeal, we affirm the trial court’s judgment for the offense of sexual abuse of a child. However, because the trial court did not pronounce sentence for the indecency offense, we lack jurisdiction to hear Appellant's appeal from his conviction on that offense and, consequently, dismiss for want of jurisdiction his appeal from the offense of indecency with a child.”

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