McLester v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 federal appellate · 2 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[s]ince the HFOA is mandatory, the State of Alabama has a serious problem regarding its recidivist statute that we will be requested to address in some other case.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 607 So. 2d 322 - Bogan v. State · Rickett v. Jones

2. “(c) In all cases when it is shown that a criminal defendant has been previously convicted of any three felonies and after such convictions has committed another felony, he must be punished as follows:”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 607 So. 2d 322 - Bogan v. State · Williams v. Johnson

3. “[n]o contention was made attacking the constitutionality of the sentence as applied to McLester based on the state's stipulation and evidence in the record showing that Alabama has lacked uniformity in application of this supposedly mandatory recidivist statute.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Jones v. White