Avery v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently March 1993
4 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 51 Ala. App. 50 - Owens v. State · Owens v. State · Roynica v. Roynica · Murphy v. Crenshaw · Murray 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"While we are aware that the procedure requested by appellant is mandated in capital cases, Murray and Johnson , supra, it is not required in a non-capital case. Special venire rules are not applicable to first degree murder cases since it is no longer a capital felony. Usrey v. State , 54 Ala. App. 448 , 309 So.2d 485 . For numerous other authorities to the same effect, see 13 Ala. Digest, Jury, key 70(1)."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“This is true, but the state suffered in kind and degree.”
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.