McNair v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 34 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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “In an ineffective assistance of counsel claim, the burden is on the claimant to show that his counsel's assistance was ineffective. Ex parte Baldwin , 456 So.2d 129 (Ala. 1984), aff'd, 472 U.S. 372 , 105 S.Ct. 2727 , 86 L.Ed.2d 300 (1985).”

   11 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Jones v. State · Johnson v. State

2. “"We conclude, after reviewing the evidence in the instant case, that the extraneous material, i.e., reading from the Bible and praying in the jury room during deliberations, was not of such a character or nature as to indicate bias or corruption or misconduct that might have affected the verdict or as to constitute prejudice as a matter of law. We find that the appellant failed to meet his burden of making a factual showing from which it could be reasonably concluded that the jury might have been unlawfully influenced in arriving at its verdict. To hold otherwise in this case would require us to resort to pure speculation and conjecture." 706 So.2d at 838 .”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. McNair v. Campbell · State v. Kirkpatrick

3. “two-thirds of Alabama's death sentences have been imposed on defendants convicted of capital murder arising out of robbery-murder.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 768 So. 2d 981 - Mason v. State · 758 So. 2d 577 - Frazier v. State