Godbolt v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently December 2014 · most notably 494 So. 2d 124 - Magwood v. State (1985), 585 So. 2d 97 - Bankhead v. State (1990)
31 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 Enmund v. Florida · Northern Pipeline Construction Co. v. Marathon Pipe Line Co. · 396 So. 2d 645 - Beck v. State · 426 So. 2d 918 - Magwood v. State · 400 So. 2d 427 - Williams 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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`[a] charge on a lesser, non-capital offense is required only when there is a basis in the evidence which provides a reasonable theory supportive of the charge. Beck v. State, 396 So.2d 645 (Ala.1980).'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“"All right then after he throwed the tire out and the man — he say you still not gone tell me, then he throwed him against the car, then throwed him down on the ground — by the — Boo had the shotgun in his hand. He gave me the shotgun. All right so when he knocked the man against the car and then dropped him on the ground and that time he gave me the shotgun, I kind of had the shotgun, I thought it was on safety and it — it went off right by Boo and Boo said, you hit me like that, he said you done shot me, then he said no, I don't know, he said it just burned me, he said something hit me under my chin. All right. So Boo said you still not gone tell me, the man laying on the ground, said you done hurt me like that. Wayne — all right Wayne had ah, got out of his car, so Boo told him to get back in his car. He was up a little ways, so Wayne sit in the car, so Wayne didn't actually see the shooting take place. So Wayne sat in his car, up a little ways from us in front of the Cutlass. All right. So ah, after then Boo say you still not gone tell me, he said give me the shotgun. I gave him the shotgun. He shot the lady then she — she hollered, then she fell, then her husband jumped and ran, he was running so fast, he tripped over his self and he fell then Boo — I'm still standing in the same place I shot the shotgun 'cause I had hurt my hand with it and Boo went over there and shot him and he say let's go. All right. We get back in the Cutlass, close the trunk, get back in and I dri”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"Myra Faye and Terry Tucker's deaths were the result of one continuous transaction, consisting of several inextricably intertwined acts. Evidence of Mr. Tucker's death was properly admissible as part of the res gestae and as shedding light on the acts, motive, and intent of appellant. Suggs v. State , 403 So.2d 303 (Ala.Cr.App.), cert. denied , 455 U.S. 938 , 102 S.Ct. 1428 , 71 L.Ed.2d 648 (1982)."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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