Webb v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

24 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “A person commits an offense if he intentionally or knowingly harms or threatens to harm another by an unlawful act: (1) in retaliation for or on account of the service of another as a public servant, witness, prospective witness, informant, or a person who has reported or who the actor knows intends to report the occurrence of a crime; or (2) to prevent or delay the service of another as a public servant, witness, prospective witness, informant, or a person who has reported or who the actor know intends to report the occurrence of a crime.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Abigail Marie Stubbs

2. “intentionally or knowingly intended to harm [complainant] by an unlawful act in retaliation for or on account of her service as a prospective witness, as a person who has reported the occurrence of a crime, or a person who [defendant] knew intended to report the occurrence of the crime.”

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