893 So. 2d 488 - Snyder v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

24 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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ ‘ “In setting out the standard for plain error review of jury instructions, the court in United States v. Chandler, 996 F.2d 1073, 1085, 1097 (11th Cir.1993), cited Boyde v. California, 494 U.S. 370, 380 , 110 S.Ct. 1190 , 108 L.Ed.2d 316 (1990), for the proposition that ‘an error occurs only when there is a reasonable likelihood that the jury applied the instruction in an improper manner.’ Williams v. State, 710 So.2d 1276, 1306 (Ala.Cr.App.1996), aff'd, 710 So.2d 1350 (Ala.1997), cert. denied, 524 U.S. 929 , 118 S.Ct. 2325 , 141 L.Ed.2d 699 (1998).” ’ “Broadnax v. State, 825 So.2d 134, 196 (Ala.Crim.App.2000), quoting Pilley v. State, 789 So.2d 870, 882-83 (Ala.Crim.App.1998). Moreover, ‘[w]hen reviewing a trial court’s jury instructions, we must view them as a whole, not in bits and pieces, and as a reasonable juror would have interpreted them. Ingram v. State, 779 So.2d 1225 (Ala.Cr.App.1999).’ Johnson v. State, 820 So.2d 842, 874 (Ala.Crim.App.2000).””

   5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Henderson v. State · Harris v. State

2. “"`Testimony that may be apparently inadmissible may be rendered innocuous by subsequent or prior lawful testimony to the same effect or from which the same facts can be inferred.' Yeomans v. State , 641 So.2d 1269 , 1272 *Page 60 (Ala.Crim.App. 1993). `The erroneous admission of evidence that is merely cumulative is harmless error.' Dawson v. State , 675 So.2d 897 , 900 (Ala.Crim.App. 1995), aff'd, 675 So.2d 905 (Ala. 1996)."”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Peak v. State · Demetrius Avery Jackson, Jr. v. State of Alabama.

3. “The doctrine of invited error applies to death-penalty cases and operates to waive any error unless the error rises to the level of plain error.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Henderson v. State · 971 So. 2d 43 - Robitaille v. State