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4 canonical passages across 4 cases, quoted by 18 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 United States v. Bell.

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1 United States v. Bell Anchor
ca5 · 2004
green “the cumulative error doctrine provides relief only when constitutional errors so 'fatally infect the trial' that they violated the trial's 'fundamental fairness.” 9
2 Russeau v. State
texcrimapp · 2009
green “to instruct the jury so as to limit the scope of militating evidence in favor of death to that which a juror might regard as increasing a defendant's moral blameworthiness” 3
3 Flores v. State
texcrimapp · 2008
green “only if the acts were consensual could defendant argue that the statute treated him and the mother unequally by allowing the state to prosecute defendant but not the mother for the same acts.” 3
4 Anderson v. State
texcrimapp · 1996
green “texas future dangerousness scheme violates texas's constitutional proscription against cruel or unusual punishment.” 3

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