Scruggs v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
October 1986
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Lawrence Metze v. New York · Guenther v. State · Wear v. Wear · 52 Ala. App. 265 - Goodman v. State · 365 So. 2d 369 - Pope 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] statement of law in an opinion of an appellate court of Alabama, unless subsequently modified, is correct, but it does not necessarily follow that it should be given by the trial court in its instructions to the jury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is a mistake to suppose that expressions in judicial opinions, properly there used, can be made to serve as clear, succinct statements of the law in special charges to the jury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.