620 So. 2d 669 - Fuller 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. “"Indeed there was no evidence presented during the course of the trial that showed that the appellant was so intoxicated that he did not know what he was doing. In order for a confession to be inadmissible based on the appellant's intoxication, the `"mind of the appellant must be substantially impaired when the confession was made."' Mann v. State, 581 So.2d 22 (Ala. Cr.App.1991), quoting Cross v. State, 536 So.2d 155 (Ala.Cr.App.1988). See also Hubbard [v. State, 500 So.2d 1204 (Ala.Cr. App.), aff'd, 500 So.2d 1231 (Ala.1986), cert. denied, 480 U.S. 940 [ 107 S.Ct. 1591 , 94 L.Ed.2d 780 ] (1987)]; McCammon v. State, 499 So.2d 811 (Ala.Cr.App.1986); Moore v. State, 488 So.2d 27 (Ala.Cr.App. 1986); Palmer v. State, 401 So.2d 266 (Ala. Cr.App.), writ denied, 401 So.2d 270 (Ala. 1981), cert. denied, 455 U.S. 922 , 102 S.Ct. 1280 , 71 L.Ed.2d 463 (1982). `Where ample evidence ... exists from which the trial judge could conclude that the appellant was not intoxicated to the extent of mania, the admission of a confession for a jury's consideration is not an abuse of discretion.' Hubbard, 500 So.2d [at] 1218. The trial court's ruling was not `manifestly wrong.'"”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Jackson v. State · 698 So. 2d 1100 - Gaddy v. State

2. “"(a) A person is justified in using physical force upon another person in order to defend himself or a third person from what he reasonably believes to be the use or imminent use of unlawful physical force by that other person, and he may use a degree of force which he reasonably believes to be necessary for the purpose. A person may use deadly physical force if the actor reasonably believes that such other person is: "(1) Using or about to use unlawful deadly physical force. . . .”

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

3. “(b) . . . a person is not justified in using deadly physical force upon another person if it reasonably appears or he knows that he can avoid the necessity of using such force with complete safety:”

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