436 So. 2d 883 - Duncan v. State.’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably 494 So. 2d 124 - Magwood v. State (1985), 587 So. 2d 1218 - White v. State (1990)
42 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 Johnson v. Zerbst · Brady v. United States · Fay v. Noia · Michel v. United States · Gateway Coal Co. v. United Mine Workers
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] verdict of conviction will not be set aside on the ground of insufficiency of the evidence, unless, allowing all reasonable presumptions for its correctness, the preponderance of the evidence against the verdict is so decided as to clearly convince this [c]ourt that it was wrong and unjust.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“When the evidence raises questions of fact for the jury and such evidence, if believed, is sufficient to sustain a conviction, the denial of a motion for acquittal, the refusal to give the affirmative charge, or the denial of a motion for new trial by the trial court do not constitute error.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“"In Duncan v. State, 436 So.2d 883, 904-05 (Ala.Cr.App.1983), cert. denied, 464 U.S. 1047 , 104 S.Ct. 720 , 79 L.Ed.2d 182 (1984), this Court rejected the contention that `the legislature did not intend ง 13A-5-31(a)(4), Code of Alabama 1975 [now ง 13A-5-40(a)(4)] to be applied except in cases where the burglary "was unrelated to and not for the purpose of the killing itself."' See also State v. Monroe, 397 So.2d 1258, 1273-74 (La.1981), cert. denied, 463 U.S. 1229 , 103 S.Ct. 3571 , 77 L.Ed.2d 1411 (1983)."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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