41 Ala. App. 54 - White v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently June 2000 · most notably Loggins v. State (2000), 358 So. 2d 782 - Van Antwerp v. State (1978)
36 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 Rainey v. State · Davis v. State · 35 Ala. App. 71 - Head v. State · 35 Ala. App. 409 - Arrick v. Fanning · Odom 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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . and in cases of this nature, that is, in criminal cases, the burden is on the State to satisfy you beyond a reasonable doubt and to a moral certainty that the Defendant is guilty before you can return a verdict'finding him guilty. “The Defendant enters into the trial of this case presumed to be innocent, and this presumption of innocence attends and accompanies him and he is entitled to the benefit of this presumption until such time as the jury is satisfied from the evidence beyond a reasonable doubt and to a moral certainty of his guilt. * * * * * * “On the other hand, ladies and gentlemen, after comparing and considering all of the evidence in the case, if your minds are left in such condition that you cannot say that you have an abiding conviction to a moral certainty of the Defendant’s guilt, then, you are not convinced beyond a reasonable doubt and the Defendant would be entitled to an acquittal. ****** “If, on the other hand, ladies and gentlemen, you are not so satisfied from the evidence, you are not satisfied from the evidence beyond a reasonable doubt and to a moral certainty that the Defendant is guilty as charged in the indictment or of either of the two lesser included offenses, it is equally your duty to acquit him. And if you have a reasonable doubt, ladies and gentlemen, if you are not satisfied of his guilt beyond a reasonable doubt and to a moral certainty or if you have a reasonable doubt growing out of the evidence or any part of the evidence or if t”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"Since counsel runs the risk of being `guided' by the court when making statements to the jury as to what may be the applicable principles of law, submitting and having approved written charges before argument avoids the danger of the judge cutting the ground from under an argument."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Certainly, the State has as much right as the defendant to argue to the jury every matter of legitimate inference from the evidence, and ... `the evidence may be examined, collated, sifted, and treated in [the solicitor's] own way.'”
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.