40 Ala. App. 658 - Blocker v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

22 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““It shall be unlawful for any person to take or attempt to take any immoral, improper or indecent liberties with any child of either sex under the age of 16 years with intent of arousing, appealing to or gratifying the lust or passions or sexual desires, either of such person or of such child, or of both such person and such child, or to commit, or attempt to commit any lewd or lascivious act upon or with the body, or any part or member thereof, of such child, with an intent of arousing, appealing to or gratifying the lust or passions or sexual desires, either of such person or of such child, or of both such person and such child; provided, that such section shall not apply to the enumerated acts where the purpose of the person committing such act or acts is to render medical or surgical treatment or when the persons are married legally one to another.””

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

2. ““ * * * We consider Fuller v. State, 39 Ala.App. 90 , 94 So.2d 788 , states the rule as to corroboration which should govern here. “Here, too, the defense presented no evidence to displace the presumption that an infant between the ages of seven and fourteen is incapable of committing a felony. Key v. State, 4 Ala.App. 76 , 58 So. 946 .””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 45 Ala. App. 171 - Alldredge v. State