50 Ala. App. 409 - Denson v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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22 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““. . . The basic principle of law, that is always the first thing I generally say to a jury, in a criminal case, is this, everyone charged with a crime in Alabama is presumed innocent. That means this defendant in this case under this indictment is presumed to be innocent from the time that she is charged, and that presumption would continue on and she would end up presumed innocent at the end of the trial, unless the State of Alabama, by and through the District Attorney’s office prosecuting the charge proves beyond a reasonable doubt and to a moral certainty the defendant’s guilt of the charge set out in the indictment. So, that presumption of innocence, as I said, prevails, until the State meets that burden of proving the defendant’s guilt beyond a reasonable doubt and to a moral certainty . . . .””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Sellers v. State · 407 So. 2d 177 - Carroll v. State

2. “generality of the oral charge . . . was not sufficient to cover the principle, `as a matter of evidence'”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 407 So. 2d 177 - Carroll v. State · 380 So. 2d 1012 - Brooks v. State

3. ““We do not mean to say that the reporter was not required to note objections of counsel and their reference to arguments; also the ruling of the court on such objections. “Defendant as an indigent was not in any worse position than a non-indigent who likewise is not entitled to such service as a matter of duty on the part of the reporter. The fact that the reporter may volunteer such service for pay does not require him to volunteer such service without pay. Such performance of service is addressed to the discretion of the court reporter without any order or direction of the trial court.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 53 Ala. App. 111 - Lyons v. State