397 So. 2d 232 - Terrell v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently March 2017 · most notably 420 So. 2d 812 - Harris v. State (1982), 528 So. 2d 343 - Robinson v. State (1986)
33 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 Mason v. State · United States v. King · Gassenheimer v. State · Terry v. State · Racine 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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The jury's determination of guilt or innocence should be based on evidence relevant to the crime charged.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage“"A universally recognized rule of law is that it is impossible to introduce evidence of distinct and independent offenses not charged in the indictment on which an accused is being tried. Brasher v. State , 249 Ala. 96 , 30 So.2d 31 (1947); Racine v. State , 290 Ala. 225 , 275 So.2d 655 (1973); Horton v. State , 41 Ala. App. 16 , 122 So.2d 920 , cert. denied, 271 Ala. 699 , 122 So.2d 923 (1966); Headley v. State , 51 Ala. App. 148 , 283 So.2d 458 (1973); Anderson v. State , Ala.Cr.App., 354 So.2d 1156 , cert. denied, Ala., 354 So.2d 1161 (1977); Tillman v. State , Ala.Cr.App., 374 So.2d 922 , cert. quashed, Ala., 374 So.2d 926 (1978); Gamble, McElroy's Alabama Evidence , (3d ed. 1977), § 69.01 (1), et seq. "The Alabama Supreme Court gave a comprehensive discussion of the rule against use of evidence of prior collateral crimes or misconduct in Hinton v. State , 280 Ala. 48 , 189 So.2d 849 (1966), and in Mason v. State , 259 Ala. 438 , 66 So.2d 557 (1953). Throughout the cases on this *Page 804 point of law, relevancy is the key factor in determining whether collateral misconduct of a defendant is admissible in evidence. "Evidence which tends to show the commission of a collateral crime or wrongful act not charged in the indictment is inadmissible in order `to prevent conviction based on a jury belief that the accused is a person of bad character. The jury's determination of guilt or innocence should be based on evidence relevant to the crime charged.' United States v. Turquitt”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The rare exceptions to the rule against use of evidence of other offenses `may be summarized as knowledge, intent, plan or design, motive, identity and inseparable crimes.' Mason , supra. None of those exceptions exist in the instant case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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