611 So. 2d 448 - Eubanks v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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7 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"`[E]very accused is entitled to have charges given, which would not be *Page 802 misleading, which correctly state the law of his case, and which are supported by any evidence, however weak, insufficient, or doubtful in credibility.' Chavers v. State , 361 So.2d 1106 , 1107 (Ala. 1978). If there is `any evidence, however slight, tending to support' that the defendant acted in self-defense, the issue should be submitted to the jury. King v. State , 71 Ala. 1 , 4 (1881). In most cases, the issue of self-defense is one of ultimate fact solely for determination by the jury, Domingus v. State , 94 Ala. 9 , 11 So. 190 (1892), however `unsatisfactory and inconclusive to the judicial mind' the evidence of self-defense may appear. Burns v. State , 229 Ala. 68 , 70 , 155 So. 561 , 562 (1934)."”

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

2. “The offense of assault in the third degree is the least serious of all assault statutes and is designed to encompass those assaults in which the least degree of physical injury is inflicted.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 688 So. 2d 292 - South v. City of Mountain Brook

3. “impairment of physical condition or substantial pain.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 688 So. 2d 292 - South v. City of Mountain Brook