Mahan v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently October 2012 · most notably 651 So. 2d 641 - Burton v. State (1993), 698 So. 2d 189 - Smith v. State (1996)
41 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 Irvin v. Dowd · 479 So. 2d 76 - Ex Parte Grayson · City of Los Angeles v. Lyons · Dennison v. State · 401 So. 2d 204 - Ferguson 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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"[W]here a juror states that he has opinions but that he would try the case fairly and impartially according to the law and the evidence and that he would not allow his opinion to influence his decision, it is not error for a trial judge to deny a challenge for cause. Howard v. State , 420 So.2d 828 , 831 (Ala.Cr.App. 1982)."”
9 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Tomlin v. State · Eaton v. State“'It is not improper for the trial court to urge upon the jury the duty of attempting to reach an agreement or verdict so long as it does not coerce or suggest which way the verdict should be returned. McMorris v. State , 394 So.2d 392 (Ala.Cr.App. 1980), cert. denied , 394 So.2d 404 (Ala. 1981); Allred v. State , 390 So.2d 1109 (Ala.Cr.App.), cert. denied , 390 So.2d 1114 (Ala. 1980); Lake v. State , 390 So.2d 1088 (Ala.Cr.App.), cert. denied , 390 So.2d 1093 (Ala. 1980).' Galloway v. State , 416 So.2d 1103 , 1109 (Ala.Cr.App. 1982). 'In situations such as the one at issue, judges may, and frequently do, encourage jurors to continue deliberating in the hope that some agreement will be reached. This is never improper as long as the judge does not coerce the jury to reach a verdict or suggest to them a particular verdict. Strickland v. State , 348 So.2d 1105 (Ala.Cr.App. 1977); Jones v. State , 56 Ala. App. 444 , 322 So.2d 735 (1975).' Murry v. State , 455 So.2d 53 , 64 (Ala.Cr.App. 1983).”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“"It is quite clear that under Alabama law a trial judge may urge a jury to resume deliberations and cultivate a spirit of harmony so as to reach a verdict, as long as the court does not suggest which way the verdict should be returned and no duress or coercion is used."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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