436 So. 2d 2 - Summerhill v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently December 2011
10 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 392 So. 2d 1274 - Watson v. State · 392 So. 2d 1280 - Sanders v. State · 401 So. 2d 248 - Serritt v. State · 412 So. 2d 298 - Burgess 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"We now hold, as we indicated in our opinion on original submission that we would likely hold, in firm adherence to Watson v. State , [ 392 So.2d 1274 (Ala.Crim.App. 1980)], and Burgess v. State , [ 412 So.2d 298 (Ala.Crim.App. 1982)], that a previous `adjudication' of guilt of a felony constitutes a previous `conviction' of a felony whenever the term `previous conviction' of a felony, or its equivalent, is used in the Habitual Felony Offenders law of Alabama."”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Gomillion v. State · Craig v. State“at the time he committed the present offense, since sentence had not been entered. It is apparent that appellant's argument is an attempt to interpolate the word”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"As the return to the order of remandment discloses (1) that prior to the judgment of conviction and sentence in the instant case defendant had been adjudged guilty of the felony charged in each of the other two cases involved and (2) that prior to his commission of the felony charged in the instant case defendant had committed the felony charged in each of the other two cases, we no longer have any concern as to the existence of either fact."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Craig 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.