476 So. 2d 1241 - Crowder v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently March 2010
10 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on 435 So. 2d 158 - Smith v. State · 34 Ala. App. 137 - De Graaf v. State · United States v. Hernandez-Cuartas · McCray v. State · 398 So. 2d 393 - Johnson v. State
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The giving of an erroneous instruction is not ground for reversal where it could not in any manner have prejudiced the accused. Dennis v. State , 118 Ala. 72 23 So. 1002 (1898)."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"MR. STOKES [Defense Counsel]: And if not, when we get to the jury charge, I'll give you my reasons for taking the position that we should in this case, but if we don't have the charge, is there any objection to my explaining to the jury what unauthorized use is, not to ask them to return a verdict on unauthorized use, but so they will know that there is a crime of unauthorized use. "In other words, Willie Lee Ainsworth is in a position where he doesn't contest the unauthorized use of the vehicle, but he is being put in a position where the jury either has to put him on the ground or convict him of Theft of Property in the First Degree. And I want them to at least know that there is a charge that can be argued to describe his conduct other than Theft of Property in the First Degree and the State refuses to go on that theory. "THE COURT: Any authority that may have been granted to him was granted under duress of sex or not and I don't think that was a valid authorized use of the vehicle. . . . "MR. STOKES: Well, that virtually making a finding from the evidence, but I am saying looking at it from the Defendant's standpoint, you see the unauthorized use statute also has a provision. Unauthorized use can be a Class A misdemeanor or it can be a Class B felony if the unauthorized use comes about through use of force. It's in the statute. But at any rate, there is no point in trying to unravel all this at this stage, but I would like to know if I'm going to be prevented from explai”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`Plain error is error which is obvious and which affects a litigant's substantial rights, and should be recognized only where there are exceptional circumstances which require the court to recognize the error to avoid a miscarriage of justice.' United States v. Hernandez-Cuartas, 717 F.2d 552, 555 (11th Cir.1983).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Garrison v. State
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