384 So. 2d 871 - Magro v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1980

Citation profile

cited by 32 later decisions

states following

October 2009

most recently cited

32 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently October 2009 · most notably 426 So. 2d 497 - Sanders v. State (1982), 401 So. 2d 241 - Matthews v. State (1981)

32 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 368 So. 2d 871 - Cumbo v. State · Skelton v. City of Birmingham · Knight v. State · Skumro v. State · 364 So. 2d 397 - Jacks 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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

“[a]n aider or abettor in the commission of a felony must be tried as a principal. Code of Alabama (1975), § 13-9-l.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. Wright v. State · 555 So. 2d 768 - Henry v. State
“"[A]ny indications of a consciousness of guilt, however minute or insignificant they may be, are admissible against a defendant if they tend to elucidate the transaction. McAdory v. State , 62 Ala. 154 (1878). Generally it is permissible to show the whereabouts of the defendant both prior and subsequent to the commission of the offense to the time of his arrest. Clifton v. State , 359 So.2d 853 (Ala.Cr.App. 1978)."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
e.g. 675 So. 2d 1 - State v. Mason
“... `Any word or act contributing to the commission of a felony, intended and calculated to incite or encourage its accomplishment, brings the accused within the statute that makes each person concerned in the commission of a felony, directly or indirectly, a principal....'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
e.g. Wright 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.