563 So. 2d 39 - Greer v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently February 2014
9 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Burks v. United States · Starnes v. Penrod Drilling Co. · Sloan v. Hicks · Northern Pipeline Construction Co. v. Marathon Pipe Line Co. · United States v. Security Industrial Bank
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'The elements of conspiracy are: first, the specific intent that a crime be performed; second, an agreement with another person to engage in or cause that crime to be performed, and third, the commission of an overt act by one of the conspirators in furtherance of the conspiracy.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“`[The] mere association with persons involved in a criminal enterprise is insufficient to prove participation in a conspiracy.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"`[N]o rule is more fundamental or better settled than that convictions cannot be predicated upon surmise, speculation, and suspicion to establish the accused's criminal agency in the offense charged.' Benefield v. State, 286 Ala. 722, 724 , 246 So.2d 483, 485 (1971). Accord, Colley v. State, 41 Ala.App. 273, 275 , 128 So.2d 525, 527 (1961). `[T]he possibility that a thing may occur is not alone evidence, even circumstantially, that the thing did occur.' Parker v. State, 280 Ala. 685, 691 , 198 So.2d 261, 268 (1967). `A conviction for crime, slight or serious, cannot be rested upon the imagination, conjecture, or guesswork' of any witness. Catrett v. State, 25 Ala.App. 331, 333 , 146 So. 287, 289-90 (1933). "`An inference can be drawn only from facts, and mere possibilities will not sustain a legitimate inference.' Rungan v. State, 25 Ala.App. 287, 288 , 145 So. 171, 172 (1932). `In our opinion the evidence, at best, did no more than give rise to a suspicion, surmise, or conjecture that appellant might be guilty as charged. And this of course was not enough.' Orr v. State, 32 Ala.App. 77, 80 , 21 So.2d 574, 576 (1945). See also Ammons v. State, 20 Ala.App. 283 , 101 So. 511 (1924). `If the evidence raises a mere suspicion, or, admitting all it tends to prove, defendant's guilt is left in uncertainty, or dependent upon conjecture or probabilities, the court should instruct the jury to acquit.' Jones v. State, 90 Ala. 628, 630 , 8 So. 383 , 384 (1890). `For circumstantial evide”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McCart v. State
How this case has been treated — in progress
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