55 Ala. App. 493 - Brantley v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

12 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"A detective or police officer who is engaged in attempts to discover violations of the law is not an accomplice of one charged with such a violation, even though the detective may have been instrumental in procuring the specific violation of the law on which the prosecution is based. Familiar illustrations of this principle are found in cases where detectives or other officers, investigating alleged illegal sales of liquor, purchase such liquor for the purpose of securing evidence, * * *."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 361 So. 2d 1182 - Tyson v. State

2. ““These ‘hard drugs or other controlled substances,’ i. e., the LSD tablets and Cocaine powder, have no relevancy to the character of the drug here at issue. Tadlock v. State, 45 Ala.App. 246 , 228 So.2d 859 ; Parks v. State, 49 Ala.App. 32 , 268 So.2d 498 , cert. denied 289 Ala. 749 , 268 So.2d 501 ; Van Nostrand v. State, 51 Ala.App. 494 , 286 So.2d 903 , cert. denied 291 Ala. 799 , 286 So.2d 906 .””

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