908 So. 2d 1024 - Ex Parte McGriff’s Empirical Analysis

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23 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““A person does not commit murder ... [and by extension capital murder] if he was moved to act by a sudden heat of passion caused by a provocation recognized by law, and before there had been a reasonable time for the passion to cool and for reason to reassert itself. The burden of injecting the issue of killing under legal provocation is on the defendant, but this does not shift the burden of proof. This subsection does not apply to. a prosecution for, or preclude a conviction of, manslaughter or other crime.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Riggs v. State · 568 F. App'x 680 - Phillip Fondren v. Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections

2. “[E]very accused is entitled to have charges given, which would not be misleading, which correctly state the law of his case, and which are supported by any evidence, however weak, insufficient, or doubtful in credibility.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Williams v. State · 43 So. 3d 634 - Jackson v. State

3. “`It is a basic tenet of Alabama law that”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Williams v. State · 993 So. 2d 45 - Jackson v. State