Russell v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently April 2005
15 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 47 Ala. App. 65 - Ireland v. State · 354 So. 2d 343 - Barnes v. State · 332 So. 2d 168 - Thomas v. State · 332 So. 2d 165 - Rogers 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We are of the opinion that he was aware of the elements. . . . Although defendant waived a reading of the indictment, he is nonetheless charged with knowledge of its contents. Further, the defendant executed an `Ireland' form which indicated, `my lawyer has explained to me the elements of this crime and the punishment therefor and I understand them.' Finally the judgment specifically states that the trial court had ascertained that the defendant was aware of the nature of the crime charged in the indictment. Thus, we cannot say that defendant was unaware of the elements of the offense. . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The decisions of our courts indicate that the defendant must be fully informed of all the elements of the offense.”
1 later decision 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.