412 So. 2d 837 - Busby v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently February 2015
2 federal appellate · 20 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 Beck v. Alabama · Douglas v. Alabama · Namet v. United States · 396 So. 2d 645 - Beck v. State · United States v. Hiss
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“20 A. It was about a month or six weeks, or something like that. I don't remember exactly. 21 R. 372. The Court of Appeals of Alabama summarized the testimony of a witness who had previously been married to Houston Busby, Jr., but at that time was divorced, which summary is as follows: 22 Lynn Busby, appellant's former daughter-in-law, testified that about six weeks prior to Houston Busby's death appellant told her that she had talked with a man about having her husband”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Busby v. Holt“... we do not find, first that the prosecution made 'a conscious and flagrant attempt to build its case out of inferences' arising from Dennis Cross' refusal to testify.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Busby v. Holt“Have you ever been offered money to either murder Houston Busby yourself, or help someone else murder Houston Busby?”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Busby v. Holt
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.