369 So. 2d 1272 - Watters v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently January 2011 · most notably 396 So. 2d 645 - Beck v. State (1981), 375 So. 2d 1271 - Jackson v. State (1979)
33 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 Clements v. State · Lee v. State · 361 So. 2d 640 - Jacobs v. State · Flannagin v. State · 369 So. 2d 1262 - Watters 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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"We, the jury, find the defendant guilty of capital murder as charged in the indictment and fix his punishment at death by electrocution.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Whisenhant v. State · Cook v. State““Nowhere in the indictment is Murder charged against the defendant; nowhere in the judgment is petitioner pronounced guilty of attempted robbery in which the victim is intentionally killed. Therefore, there is a fatal variance between the indictment and the judgment, and the judgment cannot stand. Aiola v. State, 39 Ala.App. 215 , 96 So.2d 816 (1957). Further, even if Murder were charged against the defendant such an offense is not one for which the death penalty can be imposed because it is not listed in our Death Penalty Act, § 13-11-2, Ala.Code of 1975.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cook v. State““feloniously took Three Thousand Dollars of the lawful currency of the United States of America, the personal property of Lewis Webb, from his person and against his will, by violence and said defendant in the course of the aforesaid robbery, did intentially kill the said Lewis Webb by shooting him with a pistol.” 1”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cook 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.