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361 So. 2d 1106 - Chavers v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1978

Citation profile

177
cited by 177 later decisions
2
states following
September 2018
most recently cited

1 federal appellate · 175 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 177 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably State v. Rodriguez (1980), 778 So. 2d 199 - Hyde v. State (1998)

1 federal appellate · 175 state decisions

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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 Fulghum v. State · 43 Ala. App. 108 - Lami v. State · Kelly v. State · Hornsby v. Rush · Burns 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 177 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “A court may properly refuse to charge on lesser included offenses only (1) when it is clear to the judicial mind that there is no evidence tending to bring the offense within the definition of the lesser offense, or (2) when the requested charge would have a tendency to mislead or confuse the jury.”
    67 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Herndon v. State · Ashlock v. State
  2. “"The Court charges you that the State must assume and carry the burden to establish the guilt of the Defendant beyond all reasonable doubt and to a moral certainty."”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. 518 So. 2d 214 - Lewis v. State · 497 So. 2d 600 - Johnson v. State
  3. “We do not approve the use of the expression 'all reasonable doubt,' instead of the expression ' a reasonable doubt' in that charge.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. 518 So. 2d 214 - Lewis v. State · 402 So. 2d 1078 - Craft 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.