472 So. 2d 700 - Baker v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently November 2010
10 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 435 So. 2d 766 - Ex Parte Womack · Sanders v. State · Ex Parte Bush · 54 Ala. App. 491 - Bowens v. State · 369 So. 2d 1251 - Cook 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Appellant's claim that he was so intoxicated at the time of his waiver of rights that it was not a voluntary waiver is also without merit. Alabama courts have held that `intoxication, short of mania or such impairment of the will and mind as to make an individual unconscious of the meaning of his words, will not render a statement or confession inadmissible.' Eaton v. State , 423 So.2d 352 (Ala.Cr.App. 1982), Jackson v. State , 375 So.2d 558 (Ala.Cr.App. 1979). Evidence indicated that Baker was not so drunk that his statement was involuntary." Id. at 703 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Mental abnormality of an accused is only one factor to be considered in determining from the totality of the circumstances the voluntariness and admissibility of a confession. Corbin v. State , 412 So.2d 299 (Ala.Cr.App. 1982); Shorts v. State , 412 So.2d 830 (Ala.Cr.App. 1981).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“drinking heavily, and was possibly drunk at the time he was questioned.”
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.