Thigpen v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““I charge you that if Richard Giannetti received one Thousand Five hundred Dollars as the agent for a third person, you must find the defendant not guilty. . . “Defendant # 3. “Defendant # 6. “I charge you that unless you find from the evidence beyond a reasonable doubt and to a moral certainty that Richard Giannetti received all or part of one thousand five hundred dollars for himself and not as the agent of some other person, you must find the defendant not guilty. “Defendant # 10. “I charge you that unless you find beyond a reasonable doubt and to a moral certainty that the defendant gave, offered, or promised to Richard Giannetti One Thousand Five Hundred Dollars, for his own benefit you cannot find the guilty. “Suggested Charge on Element. “I charge you that the gist of this offense is the giving, offering or promising of a gift, gratuity or thing of value to the person to be bribed. The state has charged that Richard Giannetti was the person to be bribed in this case. If you have a reasonable doubt as to whether the defendant gave, offered or promised any gift, gratuity or thing of value to one Richard Giannetti, then you must find the defendant not guilty.””

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

2. “as it relates to complicity. The appellant did not request a written charge on this matter, but did orally object at the conclusion of the court's oral charge to the court's instruction in this regard. We have reviewed the court's oral instruction and find it adequately covers the law of complicity as it relates to the immediate offense. See Section 13A-2-23, Code of Alabama 1975, and Black's Law Dictionary,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 406 So. 2d 1008 - Snider v. State