Woolf v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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2 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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “‘“To decide if a suspect is in custody [for purposes of triggering a Miranda warning], the court, looking at the totality of the circumstances, must find that a reasonable person in the suspect’s position would believe that he or she is not free to leave.’ Seagroves v. State, 726 So.2d 738, 742 (Ala.Crim.App.1998).””

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

2. “[M]ixed views on or reservations concerning the death penalty are a race-neutral reason for a strike of a prospective juror.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 261 So. 3d 397 - Russell v. State