Ex Parte Abrams’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

11 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"We decline to view the subsequent generation of a laboratory report by a third party dealing with activity that clearly predated Abrams’s sentence of probation on the sexual-abuse conviction as an act attributable to Abrams occurring after the sentencing that constitutes a violation of his probation as to that conviction."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. 17 So. 3d 693 - Benson v. State

2. “'This Court has always looked to substance over form,' Southern Sash Sales & Supply Co. v. Wiley , 631 So.2d 968 , 971 (Ala. 1994).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 254 So. 3d 242 - D.E.R. v. State

3. “a bench trial and the trial court is the sole fact finder.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 273 So. 3d 921 - Miller v. State