675 So. 2d 516 - Grayson v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 25 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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[t]he procedural bars of Rule 32 apply with equal force to all cases, including those in which the death penalty has been imposed.”

   7 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Jones v. State · Boyd v. State

2. “The petitioner shall have the burden of pleading and proving by a preponderance of the evidence the facts necessary to entitle the petitioner to relief.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Slaton v. State · 695 So. 2d 1223 - Hill v. State

3. “"A party may not solicit a promise to return a particular verdict. Ex parte Dobard, 435 So.2d 1351 (Ala.1983), cert. denied, 464 U.S. 1063 , 104 S.Ct. 745 , 79 L.Ed.2d 203 (1984). In asking this question, the prosecutor was not asking for a commitment or promise from the prospective jurors to vote for the death penalty. He was merely attempting to determine if any of the potential jurors were of a mind-set that would affect their verdict as tending to show bias or interest. The parties have a right, within the sound discretion of the trial court, to do this. Ex parte Ledbetter, 404 So.2d 731 (Ala.1981). Furthermore, questions concerning jurors' attitudes about capital punishment are not limited to those questions that would elicit information constituting grounds of a challenge for cause. Brown v. State, 288 Ala. 684 , 264 So.2d 553 (1972); Arthur v. State, 472 So.2d 650 (Ala.Crim.App. 1984); rev'd on other grounds, 472 So.2d 665 (Ala.1985)."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 775 So. 2d 857 - Melson v. State