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7 canonical passages across 7 cases, quoted by 30 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side — they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from Cook v. State.

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1 Cook v. State Anchor
texcrimapp · 1995
green “a written instrument is an indictment or information under the constitution if it accuses someone of a crime with enough clarity and specificity to identify the penal statute under which the state intends to prosecute, even if the indictment is otherwise defective.” 7
2 Rogers v. State
texapp · 1987
green “could serve no purpose other than to inflame and prejudice the minds of the jurors.” 7
3 Park v. Wood
texapp · 1947
green “an indictment should be so certain and definite in charging the offense that it leaves nothing to be supplied by intendment or inference.” 4
4 Knox v. State
texcrimapp · 1996
green “evade detention (and certain arrest) and/or run over the officer to avoid the confrontation” 3
5 Anderson v. State
texcrimapp · 1982
green “in fact, did your wife receive a threatening phone call?” 3
6 Wehrenberg, Michael Fred
texcrimapp · 2013
green “inevitable discovery' doctrine is inapplicable in texas based on that doctrine's inconsistency with the plain language of the statutory exclusionary rule.” 3
7 Delay, Thomas Dale
texcrimapp · 2014
green “it is axiomatic that, in gauging the legal sufficiency of the evidence to support a particular criminal conviction, reviewing courts are obliged to view all of the evidence in the light most favorable to the jury's verdict, in deference to the jury's institutional prerogative to…” 3

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