Hutto 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. “Whether the patrolman [who testified at trial to the defendant's oral confession] did or did not testify at the preliminary hearing or before the grand jury sheds no light on the issue of defendant's guilt or the credibility of the patrolman. * * * [T]he failure of the patrolman to testify before the grand jury or on preliminary hearing may well have been because the solicitor decided that the patrolman's testimony was unnecessary on those occasions.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 551 So. 2d 1143 - Leonard v. State

2. ““The McNabb rule excluding any confession obtained while defendant was illegally detained does not apply in Alabama. (Citations Omitted)” Hutto v. State, 278 Ala. 416, 422 , 178 So.2d 810, 815 .”

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

3. “because the evidence tends to provoke, in the jury, sympathy for the children of deceased who have lost a parent and animosity against defendant who has allegedly caused the loss.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 630 So. 2d 120 - Crymes v. State