Reed v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently September 1993
12 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 24 Ala. App. 579 - Harper v. State · 42 Ala. App. 144 - Cochran v. State · 33 Ala. App. 386 - Edwards v. State · 24 Ala. App. 576 - Broadhead 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We are unable to postulate — with reasonably intelligible standards — a cause of conduct which does not rise to the level of that course of conduct contemplated by this . . . (robbery) statute, but which would be criminally cognizable as a lesser offense. This reinforces our conclusion that the general attempt statute is here inapplicable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the jury necessarily acquitted him of the higher offense — the felony of bribery as charged.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ex Parte Williams
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.