41 Ala. App. 565 - Brown v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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10 state decisions

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

1. ““In every criminal case the jury shall be drawn, selected and empaneled as follows: Upon the trial by jury in the circuit courts of any person indicted for a misdemeanor, or felonies not punished capitally or upon appeals to the circuit courts from lower courts, the court shall require two lists of all the regular jurors empaneled for the week who are competent to try the defendant to be made, and the district attorney shall be required first to strike from the list the name of one juror, and the defendant shall strike two, and they shall continue to strike off names alternately until 12 jurors remain on the list and these 12 jurors thus selected shall be the jury charged with the trial of the case.” 1”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Griffin v. State · 418 So. 2d 919 - Lister v. State

2. ““In every criminal case the jury shall be drawn, selected and empaneled as follows: Upon the trial by jury in the circuit courts of any person indicted for a misdemeanor, or felonies not punished capitally or upon appeals to the circuit courts from lower courts, the court shall require two lists of all the regular jurors empaneled for the week who are competent to try the defendant to be made, and the district attorney shall be required first to strike from the list the name of one juror, and the defendant shall strike two, and they shall continue to strike off names alternately until only 12 jurors remain on the list and those 12 jurors thus selected shall be the jury charged with the trial of the case.” Section 12-16-102, supra, provides: “If, for any cause, the regular number of jurors competent to try the defendant is reduced below 24 in noncapital felonies and 18 in misdemeanor cases, the court must cause twice the number of the deficiency who live within five miles of the courthouse or who live with the corporate limits of any city of 10,000 or more inhabitants in which the court is held to be drawn and summoned, and the names of those appearing, who are competent to try the defendant, must be placed on the list of regular jurors for that week, and the district attorney and the defendant shall, in like manner, as provided in this division, be required to strike from the lists thus made up the names of the jurors as provided until only 12 jurors remain, who shall be the ”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 418 So. 2d 917 - Lister v. State

3. ““The Solicitor’s complaint, stating a new and different cause of action, unsupported by an affidavit charging the offense set forth in the complaint, was nothing more than a mere statement by the Solicitor. (citing numerous cases).””

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