472 So. 2d 650 - Arthur v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1984

Citation profile

cited by 26 later decisions

states following

September 2007

most recently cited

2 federal appellate · 23 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently September 2007 · most notably Arthur v. King (2007), Johnson v. State (1992)

2 federal appellate · 23 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 Irvin v. Dowd · Angrist v. United States · James Graham v. State of West Virginia · John McDonald v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts · Moore v. State of Missouri

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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

“`Questions concerning jurors' attitudes about capital punishment are not limited to those questions which would elicit information which would constitute grounds of a challenge for cause.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. Johnson v. State · 695 So. 2d 209 - Click v. State
“"As a general rule, photographs are admissible in evidence if they tend to 'prove or disprove some disputed or material issue, to illustrate or elucidate some other relevant fact or evidence, to corroborate or disprove some other evidence offered or to be offered,' and their admission is within the sound discretion of the trial judge. Fletcher v. State , 291 Ala. 67 , 277 So.2d 882 (1973); Thigpen v. State , 50 Ala. App. 176 , 277 So.2d 922 (1973); Hopkins v. State , 429 So.2d 1146 (Ala.Cr.App. 1983). Photographs may be admitted if they tend to shed light on, strengthen, or to illustrate other testimony in the case. Chunn v. State , 339 So.2d 1100 (Ala.Cr.App. 1976); Thornton v. State , 369 So.2d 63 (Ala.Cr.App. 1979)."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. 516 So. 2d 876 - Hill v. State · 686 So. 2d 495 - Ivery v. State
“[m]urder by a defendant who has been convicted of any other murder in the 20 years preceding the crime,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. Ex Parte Arthur · 575 So. 2d 1165 - Arthur v. State

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.