Ash v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “A person acts intentionally, or with intent, with respect to the nature of his conduct or a result of his conduct when it is his conscious objective or desire to engage in the conduct or cause the result. A person acts knowingly, or with knowledge, with respect to his conduct or the circumstances surrounding his conduct when he is aware of the nature of his conduct or that the circumstances exist. A person acts knowingly, or with knowledge, with respect to a result of his conduct when he is aware that his conduct is reasonably certain to cause the result. [[Image here]] If you believe from the evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that the Defendant, Thomas Coleman, on or about the 23rd day of March, 2003, in Swisher County, State of Texas, as alleged in Count One of the indictment, did then and there, intentionally or knowingly, with the intent to deceive, and with knowledge of the statement’s meaning, make a false statement under oath: to wit, that, prior to August 7, 1998, he did not know that he had been charged with crimes in Cochran County, Texas, relating to theft and abuse of official capacity, when in truth and in fact the said Defendant, Thomas Coleman, well knew that he had been charged with such crimes in Cochran County, Texas, from at least May 30, 1998, and that the said false statement was made in the course of and in connection with an official proceeding, to wit: an evidentiary hearing conducted pursuant to applications for writ of ha-beas corpus filed by Christ”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Coleman v. State · Fields v. State

2. “Now if you find from the evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that on or about the 11th day of October, 1997, in Tarrant County, Texas, Carlis Russell did intentionally cause the death of an individual, [C.H.], by shooting her with a deadly weapon, to-wit: a firearm, and the said [appellant] was then and there in the course of committing or attempting to commit the offense of aggravated sexual assault of [C.H.], and [appellant], acting with the intent to promote or assist the commission of the murder, if any, solicited, encouraged, directed, aided or attempted to aid Carlis Russell in the commission of the murder [then you will find appellant guilty of the offense of capital murder].”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Barnes v. State · Fields v. State

3. “We, the jury, request that [the trial court] clarify the definition of “serious bodily injury.” We need to know if defendant’s intend [sic] in the incident (with regard to an injury), or do we only need to consider the act or results of the act.”

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