Taylor v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

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. ““The State’s evidence at best tended to show that employees of the State of Alabama could not locate the property at some time subsequent to the date of January 16, 1973. Further, that the State of Alabama in the course of searching for the property discovered numerous items of property which were not reflected on the records of the State of Alabama. We do not believe that this is sufficient evidence upon which to predicate a conviction.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 56 Ala. App. 234 - Latham v. State

2. “"When the evidence in a criminal case raises a mere suspicion, or if the defendant's guilt is uncertain or dependent upon conjecture or probability, the trial court should grant a motion to exclude or give the requested general affirmative charge; for such evidence does not overcome the presumption of innocence with which every accused is clothed."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 363 So. 2d 1017 - Ladd v. State

3. “(1) the pretense (2) its falsity (3) obtaining property by reason of the pretense (4) knowledge on the part of the accused of the falsity of the pretense (5) intent to defraud.”

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