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404 So. 2d 106 - Snipes v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1981

Citation profile

12
cited by 12 later decisions
1
states following
June 1993
most recently cited

1 federal appellate · 11 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Coleman v. Alabama · Shadle v. State · 38 Ala. App. 64 - Wright v. State · Johnson v. State · Wright 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.

  1. “a conviction based upon a plea of nolo contendere cannot be used to enhance punishment.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
    e.g. Jones v. State · 653 So. 2d 320 - McNair v. State
  2. “[t]he rule in Alabama is that a conviction based upon a plea of nolo contendere is inadmissible in evidence in other proceedings.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. 653 So. 2d 320 - McNair v. State
  3. “the `conviction' and not the `nature of the plea' is what should govern.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
    e.g. 653 So. 2d 320 - McNair 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.