455 So. 2d 137 - Free v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently October 2019 · most notably Ex Parte United Service Stations, Inc. (1993), State v. Earp (1990)
40 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 Estelle v. Smith · 435 So. 2d 766 - Ex Parte Womack · Grissett v. State · Starr v. Starr · 448 So. 2d 404 - Ex Parte Washington
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“` Chaney v. State , 417 So.2d 625 , 627 (Ala.Crim.App. 1982). "However, this evidence must be sufficient to allow the jury to conclude, by fair inference, that the appellant was shooting at the person (named in the indictment) in particular with the intent to murder him.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“An attempt to commit murder requires the perpetrator to act with the specific intent to commit murder. One must intentionally or knowingly attempt to commit murder. A general felonious intent is not sufficient. Accordingly, one cannot recklessly attempt to commit murder.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“"Sometimes as a part of a single transaction more than one offense is charged to have been committed. If a person does a single act which results in the injury or death of more than one person, only one offense can be fastened upon him. But if in that occurrence he shoots different persons by different discharges of his firearm, an offense can be fastened separately as to each person so injured or killed , although there was but one transaction, and upon a trial for one such offense the whole transaction is admissible. Smith v. State , 88 Ala. 73 , 76 , 7 So. 52 ; Cheek v. State , 38 Ala. 227 ; Gunter v. State , 111 Ala. 23 , 20 So. 632 ; Grissett v. State , 241 Ala. 343 , 2 So.2d 399 ."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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