Ankrom v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 11 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “' "[w]hen the language of a statute is plain and unambiguous, ... courts must enforce the statute as written”

   5 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Autauga Quality Cotton Ass'n v. Crosby · Rosier v. State

2. ““‘Principles of statutory construction instruct this Court to interpret the plain language of a statute to mean exactly what it says and to engage in judicial construction only if the language in the statute is ambiguous.’ Ex parte Pratt, 815 So.2d 532, 535 (Ala.2001). ‘[T]he fundamental rule [is] that criminal statutes are construed strictly against the State.’ Ex parte Hyde, 778 So.2d 237 , 239 n. 2 (Ala.2000).””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Tulley v. City of Jacksonville