Geter v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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12 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “" '[w]hether heat of passion was sufficiently proven was for the jury to determine. Such has long been the law of this state, e.g. Ex parte Sloane , 95 Ala. 22 , 11 So. 14 (1891).' Geter v. State , 468 So.2d 197 , 198 (Ala.Crim.App. 1985). ". . . Conflicts in the evidence presented at trial are for the jury to resolve. Duncan v. State , 436 So.2d 883 (Ala.Crim.App. 1983), cert. denied, 464 U.S. 1047 , 104 S.Ct. 720 , 79 L.Ed.2d 182 (1984).”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 500 So. 2d 1296 - Cox v. State · 678 So. 2d 1210 - McCollum v. State

2. “'Having concluded that the defendant did preserve the alleged error, we must determine whether the oral charge constituted a fatal variance from the indictment.'”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 516 So. 2d 837 - Biddie v. State · 521 So. 2d 97 - Goins v. State

3. “"He causes the death of another person under circumstances that would constitute murder under section 13A-6-2 ; except, that he causes the death due to a sudden heat of passion caused by provocation recognized by law, and before a reasonable time for the passion to cool and for reason to reassert itself."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 625 So. 2d 1192 - Lett v. State