51 Ala. App. 527 - Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
26
cited by 26 later decisions
1
states following
May 1988
most recently cited
26 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Stokley v. State · 42 Ala. App. 511 - Johnson v. State · Griffin v. State · 24 Ala. App. 601 - Jackson v. State · Dobbins 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““‘3. The court charges you, gentlemen of the jury, that if, upon considering all the evidence, you have a reasonable doubt about the guilt of the Defendant, arising out of any part of the evidence, you must find the Defendant not guilty.’ ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"The trial court may validly refuse requested charges if they constitute incorrect statements of the law or are too vague to constitute a completely correct statement of the law ... It is also well settled that the court may refuse to give a requested charge if such charge has been adequately covered in the court's oral charge." Smith v. State, 51 Ala. App. 527, 528 , 287 So.2d 238 (Ala.Cr.App. 1973).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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