401 So. 2d 191 - Nobis v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
95 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 96 later decisions — most recently December 2015 · most notably Taylor v. State (1994), 585 So. 2d 97 - Bankhead v. State (1990)
95 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 · Skibs A/S Jolund v. American Smelting & Refining Co. · Fuller v. State · Arant 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 96 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A 'fixed opinion' which will bias a verdict is one that is a conviction or prejudgment, a strong or deep impression which closes the mind of a juror and combats the testimony and resists its force.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Black v. State · Holliday v. State“A trial court's rulings on challenges for cause based on bias [are] entitled to great weight and will not be disturbed on appeal unless clearly shown to be an abuse of discretion.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Jackson v. State · Townes v. State“To disqualify a prospective juror, he must have more than a bias, or fixed opinion, as to the guilt or innocence of the accused. Such opinion must be so fixed as that it would bias the verdict a juror would be required to render. Hammil v. State , 90 Ala. 577 , 8 So. 380 .”
7 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Black v. State · Holliday 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.