Ex Parte Johnson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

24 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “could not affirmatively and unequivocally testify that he did not, at the time of the interview, tell [the defendant] that the accident report would not be used in Alabama, as [the defendant] asserts that he did”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 595 So. 2d 514 - OM v. State · 588 So. 2d 891 - Dixon v. State

2. “in order to investigate a traffic accident in Tennessee and that the defendant's responses would not be used against him in any other criminal proceeding. Thereafter, the information was passed on to the Alabama authorities and was used to secure the appellant's convictions as to that offense. The Alabama Supreme Court, pursuant to a totality-of-the-circumstances analysis, determined that,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 584 So. 2d 889 - Prince v. State

3. “"It is a well settled rule of law in Alabama that a statement made subsequent to arrest is prima facie involuntary and inadmissible at trial, and the State must demonstrate voluntariness and a Miranda predicate in order to gain admission of the statement."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 575 So. 2d 1165 - Arthur v. State