451 So. 2d 385 - Fears v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently April 2006
18 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 · Dunn v. State · 414 So. 2d 993 - Ex Parte Allen · Smith v. State · 383 So. 2d 579 - Tucker 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"`[a]n intent; to cause the death of the deceased may be inferred from the character of the assault, the use of a deadly weapon and all other attending circumstances surrounding the death of the deceased.' Fears v. State , 451 So.2d 386 , 387 (Ala.Crim.App. 1984). See also Swann v. State , 412 So.2d 1253 (Ala.Crim.App. 1982); Tucker v. State , 383 So.2d 579 (Ala.Crim.App.), cert. denied 383 So.2d 586 (Ala. 1981)."”
5 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.