Lewis v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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7 state decisions

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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. “As in the case of the Fifth Amendment Double Jeopardy Clause of the federal constitution, Article I, Section 14 of the Texas Constitution protects a defendant in a criminal proceeding against multiple punishments or repeated prosecutions for the same offense. [[Image here]] [U]pon reversal of a conviction on grounds other than sufficiency of evidence, the State is free to retry the defendant on the charge and obtain a valid conviction against him in the interest of justice. [[Image here]] We therefore hold that the Double Jeopardy Clause presents no bar for the government’s retrial of appellant who was successful in setting aside his first conviction because of an error in the proceedings leading to the first conviction.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Ex Parte Davis