434 So. 2d 813 - Ex Parte Evers’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently October 2015 · most notably 614 So. 2d 405 - Ex Parte Jackson (1993), 599 So. 2d 1253 - Carroll v. State (1992)
37 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 United States v. Resnick · 38 Ala. App. 573 - Schenher v. State · Fuller v. State · Redmond v. Self · 50 Ala. App. 679 - Locklear 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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t is well established that criminal statutes should not be `extended by construction.'”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage“Statutes creating crimes are to be strictly construed in favor of the accused; they may not be held to apply to cases not covered by the words used. . . .”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage““(a) Except as authorized by this chapter, any person who possesses, sells, furnishes, gives away ... controlled substances ... is guilty of a felony....””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hankins · Rudell 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.