Stallings v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““In several cases decided in this court, it is held, that where a witness has been so situated that, if a fact, notorious and ostensible in its character, ever existed, he would probably have known it, his want of knowledge is some evidence, though slight, that it did not exist. Thomas v. Degraftenreid, 17 Ala. 602 ; Nelson v. Iverson, 24 Ala. 9 , 60 Am. Dec. 442 ; Blakey’s Heirs v. Blakey’s Ex’x, at this term ( 33 Ala. 611 ). It is obvious, that the principle on which these decisions rest is, that if the existence of a fact is shown, and it is also proved that a party was in a situation and had opportunities to know of it, .this is evidence .tending to prove that he did know of it. The rule is, that evidence having any tendency, however slight, to prove a particular fact, is competent to be submitted to the jury to show that fact. Eaton v. Welton, 32 N. H. 352.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Ingram v. Watson