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3 canonical passages across 3 cases, quoted by 16 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 Powell v. State.

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1 Powell v. State Anchor
texcrimapp · 2001
green “an appellate court would misapply the appellate abuse of discretion standard of review by reversing a trial court's admissibility decision solely because the appellate court disagreed with it.” 8
2 Pavlacka v. State
texcrimapp · 1994
green “it is a fundamental tenet of our criminal justice system that an accused may be tried only for the offense for which he is charged and not for being a criminal generally.” 6
3 Jones v. State
texapp · 2003
green “tends to make an elemental or evidentiary fact more or less probable or tends to rebut some defensive theory” 2

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