355 So. 2d 747 - Jarrell v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

19 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Where jurors testify that they have opinions but that they would try the case fairly and impartially according to the law and the evidence, and that their opinions would not influence their verdict, they are competent to serve and it is not error for a trial judge to deny a challenge for cause.”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 472 So. 2d 650 - Arthur v. State · 485 So. 2d 1238 - Stringfellow v. State

2. ““The issue in this regard was settled by the case of Vinet v. State, 38 Ala. App. 299, 301 , 83 So.2d 357 , cert. denied, 263 Ala. 701 , 83 So.2d 359 (1955), wherein the court held that the matter .of a defendant’s absent witness could not be raised for the first time by motion for new trial, where the defendant had rested his case without requesting any compulsory process for attendance of the witness, had not moved for any delay in the trial proceedings and had not requested that he be allowed showings on the testimony of the absent witness. To permit this matter to be raised for the first time by a motion for new trial where the existence of witnesses was known before trial would be to allow the defendant to speculate on the verdict of the jury. Jarrell v. State, 355 So.2d 747, 750 (Ala.Cr.App.1978).””

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