Maddox v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““[a] ‘material element’ of the crime of bribery is the defendant’s corrupt ‘intent’ at the time of the offense. Roden v. State, 5 Ala.App. 247, 254 , 59 So. 751 (1912), quoted in Pope v. State, 365 So.2d 369, 372-73 (Ala.Cr.App.1978).... As this court has noted, proof of the appellant’s ‘intent’ can be inferred from all of the surrounding circumstances. Paige v. State, 494 So.2d 795 (Ala.Cr.App.1986). “... ‘It is largely a question of fact, rather than a question of law, for the determination of the jury, whether particular conduct, or particular expressions of the accused, refer to a criminal offense, and spring from his consciousness of guilt.’ Pope v. State, 365 So.2d 369, 374 (Ala.Cr.App.1978).””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 855 So. 2d 1129 - Barnette v. State

2. “addressed to the sound discretion of the trial court and [his decision thereon] will not be revised on appeal unless it clearly appears that the discretion has been abused.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 644 So. 2d 1302 - Wesson v. State