McCarroll v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently December 1993
21 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Rodriguez v. United States · 41 Ala. App. 85 - Lindsay v. State · State v. Egan · 50 Ala. App. 501 - Kilgore v. State
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The defense of entrapment is not available to a defendant who denies that he committed the offense charged. Rodriquez v. United States, 227 F.2d 912 (1955, CA 5th Cir., Texas). The defense rests on the defendant’s admitting the deed but disclaiming the thought. Lindsay v. State, 41 Ala.App. 85 , 125 So.2d 716 (1960). * * * * * * “While the defense of entrapment may be raised when a defendant pleads not guilty, the assumption is that the act charged was committed. Rodriquez . In this case, one of the bases of the defense of entrapment — admission of the sale of heroin — was absent. Therefore, entrapment was not available to McCarroll as a defense.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"Here McCarroll denied he sold heroin, the offense with which he was charged, to the State agent. He admitted he sold capsules to the agent, which he contends contained wholewheat flour."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"The defense of entrapment is not available to a defendant who denies that he committed the offense charged. Rodriquez v. United States , 227 F.2d 912 (1955, CA 5th Cir., Texas). . . ."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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