340 So. 2d 80 - McDonald v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently October 2010
19 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 48 Ala. App. 401 - Payne v. State · 47 Ala. App. 677 - Bedingfield v. State · 48 Ala. App. 688 - Veith v. State · Cosby v. State · 54 Ala. App. 520 - Osner 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The law does not prohibit the trial judge from giving trial counsel his reasons in making certain rulings as to the law applicable to the case. . . . Bedingfield v. State , [ 47 Ala. App. 677 , 681 , 260 So.2d 408 , 412 (1972)].”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“Where the accused claims the [use of deadly physical force] was in self-defense, the onus rests on him to show that he could not safely retreat without increasing or apparently increasing his peril.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"To excuse one charged with murder on the ground of self-defense the accused must neither have provoked nor encouraged the difficulty, and must at the time have been, or appeared to be, so menaced as to create a reasonable apprehension of loss of life or grievous bodily harm, and there must have been no other reasonable mode of escape. Ala. Digest, Homicide, Keynote 109, et seq." McDonald v. State , Ala.Cr.App., 340 So.2d 80 , cert. denied 340 So.2d 84 (Ala. 1976).”
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.