53 Ala. App. 36 - Cooper v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

37 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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"Some of our decisions in regard to the requisites of the Boykin rights are confusing and this confusion led the eminent and distinguished trial judge into error, without any fault whatsoever on his part, in neglecting to personally interrogate the defendant in this case and to record her responses thereto. We regret this. We want to expressly state to the trial courts and the trial bar that our decision today, in the interest of the administration of justice, is prospective only. Stated another way, this decision has no retroactive application."”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 432 So. 2d 27 - Bennett v. State · 482 So. 2d 1290 - Bennett v. State

2. ““(2) The so-called Ireland waiver form is a useful document as it memorializes what occurred at the guilty plea hearing and we commend its use. But a guilty plea must not rest alone on the execution of a written form. There must be a personal interrogation by the trial judge and a record made of the defendant’s responses to the judges’ inquiries. By personally interrogating the defendant, not only will the judge be better able to ascertain the pleas’ voluntariness, but he will also develop a more complete record to support his determination in a subsequent post-conviction attack ‘and forestalls) the spin off collateral proceedings that seek to probe murky memories.’ There is no adequate substitute for demonstrating in the record at the time the plea is entered the defendant’s understanding of the nature of the charge against him and the consequences the plea connotes.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Church v. State

3. ““The trial judge, the defendant, and defendant’s attorney all attest over their respective signatures that the matters and things stated in ‘Court’s Exhibit A’ were read by defendant or read to defendant. Defendant acknowledges that this was done and that he understands those matters and things. “ . . . There is no rule of law that requires or even suggests that it must be presumed that the trial judge, the defendant, defendant’s attorney, or the judgment entry do not speak the truth. The judgment is not contradicted by the instant record. . . . ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 56 Ala. App. 552 - Starks v. State