Neal v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently November 2013
23 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 Fuller v. State · Stokley v. State · Morris v. State · Jones v. State · Desilvey 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“no significant history of prior criminal activity.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"Any writing or record, . . . made as a memorandum or record of any act, transaction, occurrence or event, shall be admissible in evidence in proof of said act, transaction or event if it was made in the regular course of any business and it was the regular course of the business to make such memorandum or record at the time of such act, transaction, occurrence or event, or within a reasonable time thereafter. All other circumstances of the making of such writing or record, including lack of personal knowledge by the entrant or maker, may be shown to affect its weight, but they shall not affect its admissibility."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"The import of Jacobs v. State, 361 So.2d 607 (Ala.Cr.App.1977), affirmed, 361 So.2d 640 (Ala.1978), and Clements v. State, 370 So.2d 708 (Ala.Cr.App.1978), reversed on other grounds, 370 So.2d 723 (1979), is that this Court must independently weigh the aggravating and mitigating circumstances to determine whether they are sufficient to support a sentence of death."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.