451 So. 2d 368 - Clark v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1984

Citation profile

cited by 43 later decisions

states following

February 2009

most recently cited

43 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently February 2009 · most notably Dill v. State (1991), Johnson v. State (1992)

43 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 Payton v. New York · Witherspoon v. Illinois · Lockett v. Ohio · Bumper v. North Carolina · Taylor v. Louisiana

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

“" 'In Cobern v. State , 273 Ala. 547 , 142 So.2d 869 (1962), the Alabama Supreme Court held that the fact that the victim was dead at the time the property was taken would not militate [against a finding of] the crime of robbery if the intervening time between the murder and the taking formed a continuous chain of events. See also Baker v. State , Ala. Cr. App., 344 So.2d 547 (1977). In the instant case, the intervening time, if any there be, formed a continuous chain of events.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. 729 So. 2d 883 - Ingram v. State · 740 So. 2d 1115 - Davis v. State
“"`To warrant the reception of an object in evidence against an objection that an unbroken chain of custody has not been shown, it is not necessary that it be proved to an absolute certainty, but only to a reasonable probability, that the object is the same as, and not substantially different from, the object as it existed at the commencement of the chain. Dennison v. State, 259 Ala. 424, 427 , 66 So.2d 552 (1953); Mullins v. State, 56 Ala.App. 460 , 323 So.2d 109 (1975); Jemison v. State, 40 Ala.App. 581 , 120 So.2d 748 (1960).' Sexton v. State, 346 So.2d 1177 (Ala.Cr.App.), cert. den., 346 So.2d 1180 (Ala.1977)."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
e.g. 506 So. 2d 368 - Williams v. State
“[A] charge on a lesser included offense is not proper unless there is a reasonable theory from the evidence to support such a proposition. Daly v. State , [ 442 So.2d 143 (Ala.Cr.App. 1983)], Ala. Code, § 13A-1-9 (1975).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
e.g. 497 So. 2d 208 - Isom v. State

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