348 So. 2d 1092 - Arnold v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently March 2013 · most notably 375 So. 2d 1271 - Jackson v. State (1979), 402 So. 2d 1088 - Flowers v. State (1981)
46 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Fikes v. State of Alabama · Pope v. Nebraska · Fletcher v. State · Birmingham Baptist Hospital, Inc. v. Blackwell
Most-quoted passages
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“"The issue raised by the appellant has previously been answered by the Alabama Supreme Court in Elrod v. State , 281 Ala. 331 , 202 So.2d 539 (1967). While the accused's intelligence, character, and situation at the time of the confession are important considerations in determining whether that confession was voluntary, the fact that the accused was of tender age or weak intellect will not alone render the confession inadmissible in evidence as involuntary, Elrod , supra; or where the accused was of weak mentality, feeble-minded, under mental stress or an illiterate, Elrod , supra; or was not in full possession of his mental faculties, Lokos v. State , 278 Ala. 586 , 179 So.2d 714 , vacated in 408 U.S. 935 , 92 S.Ct. 2854 , 33 L.Ed.2d 749 , on remand, 290 Ala. 122 , 274 So.2d 303 (1965); or that the accused was an `ignorant' man, Porter v. State , 55 Ala. 95 (1876). "A confession of crime is not inadmissible merely because the accused, who was not insane, was of less than normal intelligence. Fikes v. Alabama , 352 U.S. 191 , 77 S.Ct. 281 , 1 L.Ed.2d 246 , rehearing denied, 352 U.S. 1019 , 77 S.Ct. 553 , 1 L.Ed.2d 561 (1957) (accused left school at age 16 while still in the third grade; his mother testified that he had always been `thickheaded'; the court, commented that he was `certainly of low mentality, if not mentally ill'); Hoober v. State , 81 Ala. 51 , 1 So. 574 (1886) (accused was a person of `weak mental capacity'); Peck v. State , 147 Ala. 100 , 41 So. 759 (1906) (a”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“The state made out a prima facie case of robbery. The testimony of the victim alone was sufficient to accomplish this. Godbee v. State , 56 Ala. App. 174 , 320 So.2d 107 (1975).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“a wide and liberal latitude in the admission of photographs illustrative of a criminal transaction and the surrounding circumstances,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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