Sowells v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
June 1986
most recently cited
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · Giles v. State of Maryland · 49 Ala. App. 654 - Daniels v. State · Ivory v. State · McDowell 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[M]ere drunkenness, voluntarily produced, is never a defense against a criminal charge unless it is so extreme as to render impossible some mental condition which is an essential element of the criminal act. The degree of intoxication necessary to negate the element of malice must be so excessive as to paralyze the mental faculties and render the appellant incapable of forming or entertaining the design to take life.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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