Webb v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 29 state decisions

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

1. “"[a]n express waiver made in court or preparatory to trial by the party or his attorney conceding for the purposes of the trial the truth of some alleged fact. . . . This is what is commonly termed a solemn — i.e., ceremonial or formal — or judicial admission or stipulation. It is, in truth, a substitute for evidence, in that it does away with the need for evidence. "This judicial admission is sharply marked off from the ordinary or quasi-admission — which indeed does not deserve to bear the same name. The latter is merely an item of evidence, available against the party on the same theory on which a self-contradiction is available against a witness. . . . [T]he [quasi-admission] is not conclusive; but . . . the [judicial admission] is conclusive."”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Jones v. State · Liberty Nat. Life Ins. Co. v. Daugherty

2. ““ ‘[A] classification made by a Legislature is presumed to be reasonable in the absence of clear and convincing indications to the contrary, and the person who assails it has the burden of showing that it does not rest upon any reasonable basis, but is essentially arbitrary.’ Clark v. State, [ 284 Md. 260, 267 ,] 396 A.2d [243,] 247 [ (1979) ]. The Alabama legislature has classified ‘county inmates’ and ‘state inmates’ for purposes of work release as follows: “‘(1) COUNTY INMATE: A person convicted of a crime and sentenced to a term of confinement of one year’s duration or less. “ ‘STATE INMATE: A person convicted of a crime and sentenced to a term of confinement of more than one year’s duration.’ “Ala.Code (1975), § 14-8-30. Compare Ala.Code §§ 13A-l-2(3) (offense punishable by less than one year’s imprisonment is a misdemeanor) and 13A-l-2(4) (offense punished by more than one year’s imprisonment is a felony). By definition, therefore, a county inmate is a convicted misdemeanant and a state inmate, regardless of the location of his work release facility, is a convicted felon. “Although the Alabama legislature has not defined ‘state inmates in county custody,’ it has authorized the Board of Corrections to promulgate rules concerning which state inmates may participate in county work release programs, Ala.Code (1975), § 14-8-31(c), and it has provided that only those state inmates ‘approved by’ the Board of Corrections may be held in county custody. See Ala. Code (1975), § 14”

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

3. ““The Alabama legislature has classified ‘county inmates’ and ‘state inmates’ for purposes of work release as follows: “ ‘(1) COUNTY INMATE: A person convicted of a crime and sentenced to a term of confinement of one year’s duration or less. “ ‘STATE INMATE: A person convicted of a crime and sentenced to a term of confinement of more than one year’s duration.’ “Ala.Code (1975), § 14-8-30. Compare Ala.Code §§ 13A-l-2(3) (offense punishable by less than one year’s imprisonment is a misdemeanor) and 13A-l-2(4) (offense punished by more than one year’s imprisonment is a felony).””

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