459 So. 2d 953 - Waldrop v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently February 2000 · most notably 548 So. 2d 526 - Hallford v. State (1988), 523 So. 2d 1087 - Rutledge v. State (1987)
2 federal appellate · 21 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 396 So. 2d 645 - Beck v. State · 415 So. 2d 1210 - Moore v. State · Barbee v. State · 47 Ala. App. 699 - Minniefield v. State · 419 So. 2d 270 - Livingston 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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is left to the discretion of the trial court as to whether there is a reasonable or bona fide doubt as to sanity and, thus, whether a further examination is required.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“excessive or disproportionate to the penalty imposed in similar cases,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“reasonable or bona fide doubt as to [Borden's] sanity”
2 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.