441 So. 2d 989 - Biggs v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently December 2015 · most notably 587 So. 2d 1218 - White v. State (1990), Fisher v. State (1991)
29 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 State v. Ward · Palmore v. State · McNeill v. State · Haley v. State · 13 Ill. App. 3d 1038 - People v. Ahlberg
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"(2) [Causing] the death of another person under circumstances that would constitute murder under Section 13A-6-2 ; except, that he [or she] causes the death due to a sudden heat of passion caused by provocation recognized by law, and before a reasonable time for the passion to cool and for reason to reassert itself."”
10 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Peraita v. State · Knight v. State“To constitute adequate legal provocation, it must be of a nature calculated to influence the passions of the ordinary, reasonable man. Other than discovered adultery, courts have reached different conclusions as to what factual situations are embraced within this doctrine. See Commentary, § 13A-6-3 , Code of Alabama 1975. See also Annot., 93 A.L.R.3d 920 (1979).”
7 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Knight v. State · Shultz v. State“[t]he well established rule in Alabama is that mere words, no matter how insulting or abusive, cannot reduce a killing to manslaughter. Watson v. State, 82 Ala. 10 , 2 So. 455 (1886).”
3 later decisions 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.