361 So. 2d 640 - Jacobs v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
66 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 76 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2009 · most notably Beck v. Alabama (1980), Tichnell v. State (1980)
66 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 Gregg v. Georgia · Witherspoon v. Illinois · Furman v. Georgia · Lockett v. Ohio · Woodson v. North Carolina
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 76 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"If the jury finds the defendant guilty of one of the aggravated offenses listed in section 13-11-2 and fixes the punishment at death, the court shall thereupon hold a hearing to aid the court to determine whether or not the court will sentence the defendant to death or to life imprisonment without parole. . . . . .”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"(1) The defendant has no significant history of prior criminal activity; "(2) The capital felony was committed while the defendant was under the influence of extreme mental or emotional disturbance; "(3) The victim was a participant in the defendant's conduct or consented to the act; "(4) The defendant was an accomplice in the capital felony committed by another person and his participation was relatively minor; "(5) The defendant acted under extreme duress or under the substantial domination of another person; "(6) The capacity of the defendant to appreciate the criminality of his conduct or to conform his conduct to the requirements of law was substantially impaired; and "(7) The age of the defendant at the time of the crime."”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“If the jury finds the defendant guilty, it shall fix the punishment at death when the defendant is charged by indictment with any of the following offenses and with aggravation, which must also be averred in the indictment, and which offenses so charged with said aggravation shall not include any lesser offenses.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.