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3 canonical passages across 2 cases, quoted by 124 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 Cavazos, Abraham.

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1 Cavazos, Abraham Anchor
texcrimapp · 2012
green “meeting this threshold requires more than mere speculation-it requires affirmative evidence that both raises the lesser-included offense and rebuts or negates an element of the greater offense.” 58
2 Godsey v. State
texcrimapp · 1986
green “cannot be plucked out of the record and examined in a vacuum.” 43
3 Cavazos, Abraham
texcrimapp · 2012
green “pulling out a gun, pointing it at someone, pulling the trigger twice, fleeing the scene (and the country), and later telling a friend 'i didn't mean to shoot anyone' does not rationally support an inference that appellant acted recklessly at the moment he fired the shots.” 23

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