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3 canonical passages across 3 cases, quoted by 28 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 Dawson v. State.

#Case FlagCanonical passage Citers
1 Dawson v. State Anchor
alacrimapp · 1995
green “the erroneous admission of evidence that is merely cumulative is harmless error.” 17
2 Johnson v. State
alacrimapp · 2000
green “when reviewing a trial court's jury instructions, we must view them as a whole, not in bits and pieces, and as a reasonable juror would have interpreted them.” 6
3 Yeomans v. State
alacrimapp · 1993
green “testimony that may be apparently inadmissible may be rendered innocuous by subsequent or prior lawful testimony to the same effect or from which the same facts can be inferred.” 5

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