38 Ala. App. 652 - Duck v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

25 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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““1 March 1962 — Jury and verdict as follows : ‘We, the jury, find the defendant guilty of assault with intent to murder as charged in the indictment. Harrell, Foreman’ “Hare, Judge “2 March 1962 — The defendant in open court gives notice of and takes an appeal in this cause to the Court of Appeals of Alabama, and on motion of defendant made in open court the sentence in this cause is suspended pending said appeal and the defendant’s appeal bond is fixed by the Court in the sum of $7500.00) seventy-five hundred dollars, to or conditioned as required by law. “James A. Hare, Judge””

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

2. “"Substantial similarity and not identity is required to exist between the predicate laid and the proof adduced by the impeaching witness' testimony." [Citations omitted.]”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 342 So. 2d 394 - Ciervo v. State

3. “That the judge did not sign the judgment is not error.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 405 So. 2d 411 - Pinkard v. State