473 So. 2d 622 - Bell v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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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. “'It is a long established rule of this State that demonstrative evidence, such as clothing worn by the deceased at the time of the killing, is admissible if it tends to shed light on any material inquiry, even though such evidence is only cumulative of other evidence and tends to inflame the jury.' Flannagin v. State , 289 Ala. 177 , 180 , 266 So.2d 643 (1972).”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Herron v. State · 529 So. 2d 1025 - Scroggin v. State

2. “No party may assign as error the court's giving or failing to give a written instruction, or the giving of an erroneous, misleading, incomplete, or otherwise improper oral charge, unless he objects thereto before the jury retires to consider its verdict, stating the matter to which he objects and the grounds of his objection.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 515 So. 2d 55 - Kinder v. State

3. “the court should admonish the jury that the additional instructions must be regarded with all the other instructions given,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 549 So. 2d 532 - Brannon v. State