377 So. 2d 634 - Williams v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1979

Citation profile

cited by 44 later decisions

states following

October 2009

most recently cited

44 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently October 2009 · most notably Ex Parte Kennedy (1985), Dill v. State (1991)

44 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 41 Ala. App. 46 - Lackey v. State · 354 So. 2d 808 - Peddycoart v. City of Birmingham · 344 So. 2d 1264 - Slinker v. State · 36 Ala. App. 59 - Carroll v. State · 41 Ala. App. 54 - White 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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

“A defendant is likewise not entitled to charges on lesser included offenses when he denied committing the crime itself.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. Ex Parte Curry · 424 So. 2d 648 - Wesley v. State
“"A defendant charged with robbery is not entitled to an instruction regarding the lesser included offense of larceny where the only reasonable conclusion from the evidence is that the defendant is guilty of robbery or no crime at all. Turner v. State , [ 356 So.2d 235 , (Ala.Crim.App.), cert. denied, 356 So.2d 237 (Ala. 1978); Impson v. State , 331 So.2d 837 (Ala.Crim.App. 1976).]" (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
e.g. 475 So. 2d 623 - Ex Parte Stork
“may argue every legitimate inference from the evidence and may examine, collate, sift, and treat the evidence in his own way.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
e.g. 389 So. 2d 556 - Favor 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.