Buhl v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

13 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. “Now bearing in mind the foregoing instructions, if you find from the evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that on or about the 23rd day of October, 2001, in Dallas County, Texas, the defendant, MARK ANTHONY DE LA PAZ, did then and there, knowing that an official proceeding or investigation was pending or in progress, to wit: a Dallas Police Department Narcotics Division Investigation, with intent to affect the outcome of the official proceeding or investigation, did make or present or use a document, to wit: an affidavit for search or arrest warrant, hereinafter “affidavit,” dated the 23rd day of October, 2001, for the premises located at 5972 Marine Way, Dallas, Texas, with knowledge of its falsity in that the defendant knew that the affidavit contained defendant’s false statement or false information that the confidential informant was reliable, or that in the past defendant had received information from the confidential informant about persons who traffic drugs in the Dallas County area and on each and every occasion the informant had proven to be true, reliable or correct, then you will find the defendant guilty as charged in the indictment.”

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