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418 So. 2d 961 - Varner v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1982

Citation profile

21
cited by 21 later decisions
2
states following
November 2013
most recently cited

1 federal appellate · 20 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently November 2013

1 federal appellate · 20 state decisions

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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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Ohio v. Gallagher · South Dakota v. Nebraska · United States ex rel. Hines v. LaVallee · 369 So. 2d 1251 - Cook 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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “within the latitude allowed prosecutors in their exhortations to the jury to discharge their duties in such a manner as, not only to punish crime, but to protect the public from like offenses and as an example to deter others from committing like offenses.”
    5 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Henderson v. State · 495 So. 2d 726 - Middleton v. State
  2. “[i]n Alabama, the rule is that a district attorney in closing argument may make a general appeal for law enforcement.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. 495 So. 2d 726 - Middleton v. State · 528 So. 2d 1144 - Frazier v. State
  3. “We can't work for anything and hold on to it nowadays because people like Mr. Varner are going out and stealing it”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. 495 So. 2d 726 - Middleton v. State · 462 So. 2d 1013 - Orr 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.