Lambeth v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently February 2014 · most notably Stewart v. State (1992), 548 So. 2d 459 - Acres v. State (1989)
32 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 Cagle v. State · 37 Ala. App. 603 - Sanford v. State · Phillips v. Phillips · Rakestraw v. State · 371 So. 2d 947 - Dillard 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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"[T]he Defendant has entered a plea of not guilty. Therefore, the burden of proof is on the State of Alabama, and the Defendant is always presumed to be innocent. The fact that he's been arrested and indicted and brought before the bar of justice does not create any presumption against him at all. But he comes into the court clothed with this presumption of innocence, and this presumption of innocence remains with him throughout the trial as an evidentiary fact in his favor. That is as a matter of evidence which must be considered by you until it is overcome by evidence, which proves his guilt to each and every one of you beyond a reasonable doubt, and to a moral certainty. As I've said, the burden is *Page 505 on the State to prove his guilt beyond a reasonable doubt and to a moral certainty of any of the offenses charged in the indictment before you could convict him. "Now, you will want to know what a reasonable doubt is. When I say the State has the burden of proving guilt beyond a reasonable doubt and to a moral certainty, that does not mean that the State must prove the alleged crime beyond every imaginable or speculative doubt or beyond all possibility of mistake, because that would be impossible. A reasonable doubt means an actual substantial doubt. It could arise out of the testimony in the case or it could arise from a lack for which a reason can be assigned. And the expression 'to a moral certainty' means practically the same thing as beyond a reasonable doubt, bec”
6 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Stephens v. State · Owen v. State“"[I]f by the oral charge or by other requested jury instructions, the jury is presented a discussion of the reasonable doubt standard as applied to the evidence in its totality, then the failure to give instructions similar to defendant's charges . . . is not error to reverse." Lambeth , 380 So.2d at 925 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“(emphasis added) The court, moreover, repeatedly charged the jury, both before the trial began and at the close of the trial, on the defendant's presumption of innocence and the State's burden of proof. Hence, because requested charges 2 and 5 were substantially and fairly covered by the trial court in its oral instructions to the jury, the trial court committed no error by refusing the written charges. II Barnes contends that the evidence was insufficient to support the jury's verdict and the judgment of conviction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.