470 So. 2d 1340 - Davis v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently February 2017
8 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 340 So. 2d 885 - Sharpe v. State · 455 So. 2d 999 - Perry v. State · 445 So. 2d 958 - Wyllie v. State · 398 So. 2d 780 - Wiggins v. State · 372 So. 2d 390 - Helton 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The events we have recited could hardly be considered mere restraint, as required for an unlawful imprisonment, but rather, if anything, constituted an abduction. Therefore, the court did not have a 'rational basis' to instruct the jury on this lesser offense. Wyllie v. State , 445 So.2d 958 (Ala.Cr.App. 198[3]). 'When the evidence clearly shows that the appellant is either guilty of the offense charged, or innocent, the charge on a lesser included offense is not necessary or proper.' Perry v. State , 455 So.2d 999 (Ala.Cr.App. 1984)."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Goff v. State · Bang v. State“(2) With intent to cause physical injury to another person, he causes physical injury to any person by means of a deadly weapon or a dangerous instrument. . . . "”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"(a) A person commits the crime of assault in the second degree if:”
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.