459 So. 2d 959 - Ex Parte Waldrop’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2015 · most notably 585 So. 2d 112 - Ex Parte Bankhead (1991), 534 So. 2d 329 - Hooks v. State (1987)
2 federal appellate · 54 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 Hance v. Zant · Embrey v. State · Ex Parte Bush · 369 So. 2d 1251 - Cook v. State · 459 So. 2d 953 - Waldrop 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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'In Alabama, the rule is that a district attorney in closing argument may make a general appeal for law enforcement. Embrey v. State , 283 Ala. 110 , 118 , 214 So.2d 567 (1968). " 'This line of argument is "within the latitude allowed prosecutors in their exhortations to the jury to discharge their duties in such a manner as, not only to punish crime, but to protect the public from like offenses and as an example to deter others from committing like offenses.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Henderson v. State · Ex Parte Smith“[i]n all cases in which the death penalty has been imposed, upon review of the opinion of the Court of Criminal Appeals on certiorari, the Supreme Court may notice any plain error or defect in the proceeding under review, whether or not brought to the attention of the trial court, and take appropriate appellate action by reason thereof, whenever such error has or probably has adversely affected the substantial rights of the petitioner.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ex Parte Bush · Ex Parte Smith“"[t]he prosecutor was merely commenting on the investigation conducted by the police officers. That they did a good job in their investigation is a reasonable inference which was properly drawn from the evidence presented at trial. Moreover, the prosecutor was not injecting his own knowledge or experience into the argument, nor was he indicating a personal belief in the veracity of the witnesses' statements. 'During closing argument, the prosecutor as well as defense counsel has a right to present his impressions from the evidence, if reasonable, and may argue every legitimate inference.'..."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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