432 So. 2d 8 - Thatch v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently February 2018
19 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 Swansboro Country, Inc. v. Lumberman's Mortgage Co. · Kahm v. United States · Union Labor Life Insurance v. Pireno · Peary v. Connecticut · State v. Peary
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“must clearly inform the accused of the offense with which he is being charged and must do so in language that is readily understood by the ordinary person.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“"The Grand Jury of said County charge that before the finding of this indictment Willie C. Dobyne, whose name is otherwise unknown to the Grand Jury other than as stated, did intentionally cause the death of another person, to-wit: Linda Snipes and Leon Billingsley by shooting them with a shotgun, and Willie C. Dobyne caused said death during the time that he was in the course of committing a theft of United States Currency, the Property of County Truck Stop, by the use of force against the persons of Linda Snipes and Leon Billingsley, with intent to overcome their physical resistance or physical power of resistance, while the said Willie C. Dobyne was armed with a deadly weapon or dangerous instrument, to-wit: a shotgun, in violation of Section 13A-5-40 (a)(2) of the Code of Alabama , against the peace and dignity of the State of Alabama."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"[c]ertain types of knives are specifically included within the definition of 'deadly weapon,' but that definition is not limited to knives of only those types. § 13A-1-2 (11); see Johnson v. State , 406 So.2d 451 (Ala.Cr.App. 1981)."”
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.