437 So. 2d 1349 - Dunkins v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1983

Citation profile

cited by 36 later decisions

states following

January 2001

most recently cited

1 federal appellate · 35 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently January 2001 · most notably 585 So. 2d 112 - Ex Parte Bankhead (1991), 516 So. 2d 726 - Jackson v. State (1985)

1 federal appellate · 35 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Edwards v. Arizona · Gregg v. Georgia · Witherspoon v. Illinois · North Carolina v. Butler

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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

“"In the instant case, the aggravating circumstances 'remarkably and exceedingly outweigh the mitigating circumstances. . . .' Dunkins [v. State , 437 So.2d 1349 (Ala.Cr.App. 1983)]. We therefore concur in and affirm the findings of the jury and the trial court that death is the appropriate sentence. 'Indeed, applying the laws of this state and nation to the particular facts of this case, we do not see how any other penalty is justified.' Id. "”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. 511 So. 2d 248 - Thomas v. State · 460 So. 2d 207 - Thomas v. State
“an absolute per se bar on any conversation with the accused by investigating officers after the former has requested counsel. It only inhibits investigative interrogation related to the specific crime itself.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. 501 So. 2d 496 - McCall v. State · 492 So. 2d 331 - Hamilton v. State
“[T]here was evidence from which the jury might reasonably conclude that the evidence and all reasonable inferences therefrom excluded every reasonable hypothesis other than guilt and proof of the corpus delicti of rape.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
e.g. 555 So. 2d 196 - Freeman 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.