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1984

Citation profile

12
cited by 12 later decisions
1
states following
March 2016
most recently cited

12 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently March 2016

12 state decisions

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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 James G. Davis v. State of Alabama · 392 So. 2d 1266 - McKinnis v. State · Taylor v. State · Hull v. State · 416 So. 2d 760 - Daniels 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “are bare allegations and cannot be considered as evidence or proof of the facts alleged.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “[W]e do not think that counsel should be penalized for the fact that he is not a magician, . . . nor for his lack of `druidic magical powers to produce an acquittal.'”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “It is fundamental that counsel must be given adequate time for preparation.”
    1 later decision 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.