429 So. 2d 666 - Wiggins v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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14 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"No error is committed in supplemental instructions, including the 'Allen' or 'dynamite' charge, unless it is threatening or coercive in the language used. Lake v. State , 390 So.2d 1088 , (Ala.Cr.App. 1980); Ala.Dig. Criminal Law, Key No. 865(1). "It is not error for the trial court to call the jury's attention to the time and expense a new trial would entail. Poellnitz v. State , 48 Ala. App. 196 , 263 So.2d 181 (1972); Watson v. State , 398 So.2d 320 (Ala.Cr.App. 1980); Galloway v. State , 416 So.2d 1103 (Ala.Cr.App. 1982)."”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 536 So. 2d 155 - Cross v. State · 781 So. 2d 257 - McWhorter v. State

2. “'Even where the jurors receive newspaper accounts of, or comments on, the case, the verdict will not be disturbed if the papers contain nothing calculated to mislead or improperly affect their minds or to prejudice their verdict, or if the court is satisfied that none of the jurors were influenced thereby. The court is not required to discharge the jury or to reverse the verdict because of a newspaper article, which, it is satisfied, the jurors have neither seen nor heard. . . .'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 588 So. 2d 561 - Smith v. State

3. “However, the fact that a juror has read a newspaper in which the case is discussed does not entitle the defendant to an automatic mistrial.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 473 So. 2d 627 - Thomas v. State