333 So. 2d 865 - McGhee v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently November 2009 · most notably 695 So. 2d 70 - Bush v. State (1996), 401 So. 2d 266 - Palmer v. State (1981)
2 federal appellate · 33 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 29 Ala. App. 349 - Wilkins v. State · Mitchell v. State · 33 Ala. App. 316 - Smitherman v. State · Ellis v. State · 51 Ala. App. 148 - Headley v. State
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"It seems that under certain circumstances prior conduct on the part of the appellant, including recent criminal convictions for driving while intoxicated, might be probative of the state of mind of the appellant on Christmas Eve 1974 (the night of the fatal accident). If evidence *Page 269 had been introduced tending to show that the appellant habitually drove his car while intoxicated or that he had numerous recent convictions for driving while intoxicated, such evidence would probably be indicative of malice, or a wanton and willful disregard for human life pursuant to the definition stated in Mitchell [v. State , 60 Ala. 26 (1877)] supra." McGhee , 333 So.2d. at 868.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“. . . this appears to be an area which is ripe for legislative action. A statute which speaks specifically to the elements of vehicular homicide while intoxicated, along with an appropriate penalty section, would be an immense improvement over the present attempts to prosecute for such conduct under our traditional murder statutes.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Langford v. State““... [T]he proper method of proving a prior conviction is by a judgment entry in the court records or a certified copy of the court record showing a judgment entry of the prior conviction. Highsmith v. State, 55 Ala.App. 272 , 314 So.2d 874 (1975); Headley v. State, 51 Ala.App. 148 , 283 So.2d 458 (1973)."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.