571 So. 2d 341 - McClellan v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"[T]he test of relevancy ... is a prerequisite to admissibility under each of the exceptions [to the general rule against admissibility of prior offenses]. Ex parte Killough, 438 So.2d 333 (Ala. 1983).... "Evidence that the defendant committed two drug-related offenses more than 10 years before the subject charge [of the unlawful possession of marijuana] is far too remote to satisfy the requisite test of relevancy."”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. J.D.S. v. State · 587 So. 2d 1249 - JDS v. State

2. ““ ‘Even when the crime charged is one requiring specific intent, the evidence still may not be admitted where competent evidence links the defendant with the crime charged and the jury can infer the requisite intent.’ Gamble & James, Perspectives on the Evidence Law of Alabama: A Decade of Evolution, 1977-1987, 40 Ala. L.Rev. 95, 134 (1988) (citing Ex parte Cofer, 440 So.2d 1121, 1124 (Ala.1983)).””

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

3. “'too remote to satisfy the requisite test of relevancy.'”

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