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5 canonical passages across 3 cases, quoted by 24 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 Matlock, Marcus Dewayne.

#Case FlagCanonical passage Citers
1 Matlock, Marcus Dewayne Anchor
texcrimapp · 2013
green “against the great weight of the evidence as to be manifestly unjust, conscience-shocking, or clearly biased.” 7
2 Matlock, Marcus Dewayne
texcrimapp · 2013
green “against the great weight and preponderance” 6
3 Matlock, Marcus Dewayne
texcrimapp · 2013
green “in the factual-sufficiency review of a rejected affirmative defense, an appellate court views the entirety of the evidence in a neutral light, but it may not usurp the function of the jury by substituting its judgment in place of the jury's assessment of the weight and credibili…” 5
4 Gonzales v. State
texcrimapp · 1986
green “for a claim of fear to rise to the level of sudden passion, the defendant's mind must be rendered incapable of cool reflection.” 3
5 Colette Reyes v. State
texapp · 2015
green “evidence that is factually sufficient” 3

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