365 So. 2d 369 - Pope v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently March 2017 · most notably 528 So. 2d 343 - Robinson v. State (1986), 940 So. 2d 331 - Irvin v. State (2005)
48 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 Stokley v. State · Ellis v. State · McAdory v. State · Snead v. State · Dockery 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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“' "On the trial of a person for the alleged commission of a particular crime, evidence of his doing another act, which itself is a crime, is not admissible if the only probative function of such evidence is to show his bad character, inclination or propensity to commit the type of crime for which he is being tried. This is a general exclusionary rule which prevents the introduction of prior criminal acts for the sole purpose of suggesting that the accused is more likely to be guilty of the crime in question.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Stephens v. State · Yates v. State“'A conviction of one charged in the indictment with having been the actual perpetrator of a crime is authorized on proof of a conspiracy or that the accused aided or abetted in the commission of the crime. Stokley v. State , 254 Ala. 534 , 49 So.2d 284 (1950). An aider or abettor may be indicted directly with the commission of the substantive crime and the charge may be supported by proof that he only aided and abetted in its commission. Pope v. State , 365 So.2d 369 (Ala.Cr.App. 1978).'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“"Because the unintentional doing of an act is abnormal and unusual, the more a person does other acts similar to the act in question, the greater the likelihood that the act in question was not done inadvertently. Therefore, in certain crimes the state may prove accused's doing of similar acts as tending to show that in doing of a now charged act, he had that intent that is an element of the now charged crime."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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