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1984

Citation profile

14
cited by 14 later decisions
1
states following
June 2000
most recently cited

14 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently June 2000

14 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Stokley v. State · 448 So. 2d 404 - Ex Parte Washington · 391 So. 2d 677 - Ex Parte Dolvin · 368 So. 2d 568 - McBryar 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “" In a trial on an Indictment charging intentional murder, an instruction on universal malice murder constitutes error and a fatal variance." 1987 cumulative supplement at 68.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. 602 So. 2d 1213 - Kuk v. State · 809 So. 2d 841 - Apicella v. State
  2. “The proper way to ascertain whether adverse publicity may have biased the prospective jury is through the voir dire examination.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. 615 So. 2d 135 - Sartin v. State · 630 So. 2d 92 - Yelder v. State
  3. ““It was ... unnecessary for the charging instrument to incorporate the principles of the complicity statute by reference. See Stokley v. State, 254 Ala. 534 , 49 So.2d 284 (1950). ‘[A]ll person concerned in the commission of the crime, whether they directly commit the act constituting the offense, or aid and abet in its commission, must be indicted, tried and punished as principals.’ Johnson v. State, 405 So.2d 149, 153 (Ala.Crim.App.1981) (emphasis in [Johnson ]).””
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. 637 So. 2d 229 - Cook 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.