417 So. 2d 625 - Chaney v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently July 2013 · most notably 642 So. 2d 979 - Oryang v. State (1993), 455 So. 2d 137 - Free v. State (1984)
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 49 Ala. App. 130 - Padgett v. State · 370 So. 2d 332 - Flint v. State · Padgett v. State · Shiflett v. State · Huggins 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.
“In Alabama, a person commits the crime of attempt to murder if he intends to cause the death of another person and does any overt act towards the commission of that intent.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Cockrell v. State · Barnes v. State“"Intent may be presumed from the act of using a deadly weapon . . . and from the character of the assault, including the nature and amount of force used in inflicting the fatal injury. . . ." (Citations omitted.)”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“'[i]t is no defense that the offense charged to have been attempted was, under the attendant circumstances, factually or legally impossible of commission.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.