45 Ala. App. 320 - Baggett v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

13 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The well established general rule is that proof of separate and distinct crimes is not admissible, unless such proof has some legitimate tendency to shed light on motive, intent, scienter, or identity, so as to directly establish the defendant’s guilt of the charge for which he is on trial.””

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

2. ““. . . Continuances in the discretion of the presiding judge, or delay occasioned by want of time to try, or any like necessitating circumstances, do not contravene the right to a speedy trial.” Sample v. State, supra, Baggett v. State, 45 Ala.App. 320 , 229 So.2d 819 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 49 Ala. App. 97 - Braden v. State