562 So. 2d 131 - Ex Parte Pope’s Empirical Analysis

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11 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"[A] criminal defendant has the right to a thorough and sifting cross-examination, but that right is not absolute. The latitude and extent of cross-examination are matters within the sound discretion of the trial court, and in the absence of abuse, that discretion is not reversible on appeal."”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Wright v. State · MT v. State

2. “We cannot hold the trial judge in error for not ordering the state to allow Pope to use these photographs, which were not in evidence at the time of Pope's request. We further cannot hold that the state's refusal was a violation of Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 , 83 S.Ct. 1194 , 10 L.Ed.2d 215 (1963), because the state had previously complied with a Temp. Rule 18, A.R. Cr. P. [now Rule 16], motion by defendant in which these photographs were disclosed by the state. Therefore, no error can be found on this issue.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 985 So. 2d 446 - Ex Parte State

3. “We held in Ex parte Bell , 475 So.2d 609 (Ala. 1985), that in order to preserve an issue of refused jury instructions, it is necessary for the proponent of the instructions to recite briefly the relevant facts in connection with the jury charge.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 594 So. 2d 664 - Warner v. State