340 So. 2d 65 - Stennett v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently January 2005
14 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 Lambert v. State · Clark v. State · 48 Ala. App. 688 - Veith v. State · 340 So. 2d 60 - Stennett v. State · 34 Ala. App. 391 - Woodard 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he defendant's objection was sustained. He received a favorable ruling on the only action requested. Thus, there was no adverse ruling upon which error can be predicated.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"[Mr.] MEADORS — For the record, I would like to ask the Court to instruct the jury to disregard what they have just heard. "COURT — Members of the jury, it's improper to bring up at this time what someone might have been charged with or what this defendant might have been charged with having done on a previous occasion. It is only proper to bring up at this time, any offense which he might have been found guilty of, or plead guilty to on a previous occasion. So, totally disregard any reference that might have been made as to what the original charge was that brought him into court somewhere, and you are to consider only what if anything, he has [been] shown to have plead guilty to, or otherwise found guilty of. So, totally disregard and put out of your mind, put out of your consideration altogether, any crime or any charge that might have been brought against him, unless it be shown to you that he was either convicted of that, or plead guilty to it."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"Furthermore, it should be noted that a requirement that the defendant requests the Court to instruct the jury to disregard the prosecutor's statement could be construed to constitute a waiver of his motion for a mistrial because of the antithesis of the two conflicting requests. The motion for a mistrial proceeds on the premise of the ineradicable nature of the remarks. A request for instructions, on the other hand, concedes that the trial [c]ourt, by appropriate charge, may disabuse the jurors' minds of any prejudicial effect of such statements and allow the defendant to receive a fair trial. It is at least arguable that unless alternatively made, or so separated by time as to constitute separate motions, a request for the latter (instruction to disregard) could be said to waive the former (motion for mistrial)."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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