Flanigan v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

28 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

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

1. ““The evidence offered by the state shows without dispute that defendant and Stutts waylaid and in an attempt to-rob Shafer, Stutts shot him, with a pistol furnished- by the defendant and caused his death. Also that Stutts hit the deceased over the head with the pistol, crushed his skull and then robbed him of his wallet containing money. There is not a mitigating circumstance in favor of the defendant. He went to-the house of Stutts and woke him up, supplied the conveyance to take him to the place of the holdup, furnished the pistol used by Stutts to kill Shafer, then left Shafer in the throes of death and the scene of the crime in defendant’s automobile, and afterwards they divided the spoils. “The record presents a case of cruel and dastardly murder committed in accomplishing highway robbery.” (Emphasis ours.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Ex parte Flanigan

2. “'Following the lead of the cases cited above, we feel it our duty to regard the question as settled in this State, that a caption, such as is described in Reeves v. State [ 20 Ala. 33 ], is an essential of a good indictment; and when the question comes before us on appeal, if the record does not contain such caption, it is a fatal error.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 549 So. 2d 119 - Perry v. State