State v. Beal’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently June 2004
2 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on State v. Jackson · State v. Goodman · Raines v. State · State v. Ell · 435 So. 2d 1324 - Ex Parte Thomas
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.
“guided by the explicit language of Ala. Code § 15-19-7 (a) which provides, in pertinent part, that an adjudication as a youthful offender `shall not be deemed a conviction of crime; provided, however, that if he is subsequently convicted of crime, the prior adjudication as youthful offender shall be considered'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Craig v. State“upon a finding that the record does not support the jury's findings of any aggravating circumstance or circumstances upon which the sentencing court based its sentence of death”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Cummings“very persuasive authority which should be given substantial weight.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Craig v. State
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.