Hammock v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

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

1. “"The right of cross-examination, thorough and sifting, belongs to every party as to the witnesses called against him...."”

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

2. “"`It has long been the law in Alabama that "[p]hotographs which show the external wounds in the body of a deceased victim, even though they are cumulative and based on undisputed matters, are admissible. The fact that they are gruesome is not grounds to exclude them so long as they shed light on the issues being tried. Burton v. State , 521 So.2d 91 (Ala.Cr.App. 1987). See also Kinder v. State , 515 So.2d 55 (Ala.Cr.App. 1986). The fact that a photograph is gruesome and ghastly is no reason to exclude it from evidence, so long as the photograph has some relevancy to the proceedings, even if the photograph may tend to inflame the jury. Magwood v. State , 494 So.2d 124 , 141 (Ala.Cr.App. 1985). See also Hutto v. State , 465 So.2d 1211 (Ala.Cr.App. 1984); Jones v. State , 439 So.2d 776 , (Ala.Cr.App. 1983); Godbolt v. State , 429 So.2d 1131 (Ala.Cr.App. 1982).'"”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 814 So. 2d 899 - Ward v. State

3. “There is no reason to treat photographs of internal wounds differently than photographs of external wounds.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 814 So. 2d 899 - Ward v. State