Brown v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

21 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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “the resolution of conflicting testimony [is] for the jury's determination”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Rutledge v. State · 650 So. 2d 534 - Tucker v. State

2. ““The husband-wife privilege ‘ “has for its object the security from apprehension of disclosure — a security in consequence of which confidences will be freely given and not withheld.” ’ Brown v. State, 588 So.2d 551, 556 (Ala.Crim.App. 1991) (quoting Handley v. State, 515 So.2d 121, 125 (Ala.Crim.App.1987), quoting in turn -8 Wigmore, Evidence § 2837 (McNaughton rev.1961)). “ ‘The confidential communication privilege between spouses applies to “knowledge acquired, by one spouse’s observation of an act of the other spouse in private if the circumstances indicate the actor-spouse did the act in the presence of the other spouse solely because of the confidence normally inspired by the marriage relation.” ’”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Wampol v. McElhaney