Ex Parte Barnes’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 11 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “When a defendant has been detained in custody or held to bail for his appearance to answer any criminal accusation before the district court, the prosecution, unless otherwise ordered by the court, for good cause shown, supported by affidavit, shall be dismissed and the bad discharged, if indictment or information be not presented against such defendant at the next term of the court which is held after his commitment or admission to bail.”

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

2. “Reasons for the delay in indictment similar to the ones the State provided at the writ hearing have been considered and rejected in the context of a defendant's right to a speedy trial. For instance, the court of criminal appeals did not consider a defendant's attempts to informally resolve a related civil action together with the pending criminal case at issue an `exceptional circumstance' to excuse the delay of trial”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Ex Parte Martin

3. “If a motion to set aside an indictment, information, or complaint for failure to provide a speedy trial is sustained, the court shall discharge the defendant. A discharge under this article or Article 32.01 of this code is a bar to any further prosecution for the offense discharged and for any other offense arising out of the same transaction....”

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