462 So. 2d 960 - Abernathy v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently August 2009
7 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 Public Broadcasting Service v. Network Project · 348 So. 2d 1126 - Summers v. State · Bryant v. State · 380 So. 2d 940 - House v. State · House 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"`Section 13A-10-33 , by definition is a "catchall" statute for escapes. It is applicable to all escapes , including those from city or county jails or from city or county jail officials. . . . It applies to escapes from "any detention pursuant to a lawful arrest or court order." See , Ala. Code §§ 13A-10-31 through 13A-10-33 Commentary (1975).'"”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“"(a) A person commits the offense of escape in the third degree if he escapes or attempts to escape from custody. "(b) Escape in the third degree is a Class C felony."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“any detention pursuant to a lawful arrest or court order.”
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.