451 So. 2d 365 - Hoppins v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 12 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““In all cases appealed to the Court of Criminal Appeals, except those in which the death penalty has been imposed, the Court of Criminal Appeals shall consider only questions or issues presented in briefs on appeal.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Maye v. State · 516 So. 2d 837 - Biddie v. State

2. “Title 15, § 389, Code of Alabama 1940, [the immediate predecessor of § 12-22-240 ] requires that this Court must "consider all questions apparent on the record or reserved by bill of exception (now transcript of the evidence) and must render such judgment as the law demands." This statute does not mean that in a case of this kind a review will be made of questions which were not properly raised in the trial court.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 516 So. 2d 846 - Biddie v. State

3. “"In approving Rule 45B, this court did not intend to restrict the authority of the Court of Criminal Appeals to consider obvious errors, but we instead intended to say that that court was no longer obligated to search the record. Any language in rule 45B indicating otherwise is *Page 842 contrary to the intended effect of that provision."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 516 So. 2d 837 - Biddie v. State