Stringer v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ ‘Voluntary drunkenness’, as here in-' volved, ‘does not excuse crime, but its excessiveness may produce such a mental condition as to render intoxicated persons incapable of forming a specific intent, and, when intent is an essence of the crime, drunkenness as affecting mental state is a question for the jury. * * ’ Dyer v. State, 241 Ala. 679 , 4 So.2d 311 .””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 607 So. 2d 1285 - Striplin v. City of Dothan · 472 So. 2d 691 - Ponder v. State