McAlpine v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 26 state decisions

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The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Squash Beavers testified, that he owned the houses that defendants lived in, and also the one in which Alice Madison lived. Alice had been examined for the state, and this witness, Beavers, examined by defendants, had just testified that her character for truth and veracity in the community where she lived was bad, and he would not believe her on oath. The state was allowed to ask him, against defendants’ proper objection, ‘Did Alice Madison pay her rent?’ What her payment of her rent had to do with the issues we have been unable to discover. Such a collateral matter, not affecting the issues, should not have been allowed in the case. $ * * ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 42 Ala. App. 499 - Pugh v. State

2. ““There is nothing in the point raised against the verdict. The juror in reply to the question propounded by the court answered that he acquiesced in and agreed to the verdict. That was sufficient to show that it was his verdict.” (at 23 So. at page 132)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Schmelz