455 So. 2d 1008 - Chambers v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently June 2002
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 · Lego v. Twomey · 387 So. 2d 855 - Eakes v. State · 448 So. 2d 404 - Ex Parte Washington · Lewis 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.
“Here, the appellant was indicted for murder and yet received a lesser conviction of manslaughter, even though one of the charges to the jury was 'universal malice murder' and therefore improper. *Page 185 The jury chose not to rely on the improper charge, but decided to follow a different course and convict the appellant of a crime of lesser-degree. If the jury had convicted the appellant of 'universal malice murder,' as in the case of Washington , supra, then prejudicial error would have occurred and a reversal and remandment would be appropriate measures.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"The trial court did in fact commit error by reading the 'universal malice murder' charge, but the error became harmless when the jury returned a verdict of manslaughter, a lesser offense. See Hutcherson v. State , 441 So.2d 1048 (Ala.Crim.App. 1983); Weaver v. State , 35 Ala. App. 158 , 44 So.2d 773 (1950); Garrett v. State , 33 Ala. App. 168 , 31 So.2d 151 (1947); and Thompson v. State , 131 Ala. 18 , 31 So. 725 (1902)." 455 So.2d at 1010-11 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“In considering whether a confession or inculpatory statement is voluntarily made, the trial judge need only be convinced from a preponderance of the evidence as to the rules of voluntariness.”
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.