475 So. 2d 628 - Ex Parte Alexander’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently July 2015 · most notably State v. Alderette (1990), Webb v. State (1988)
27 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 Marks v. United States · Dobbert v. Florida · Bouie v. City of Columbia · Calder et Wife, v. Bull et Wife. · Smith v. Cahoon
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We are not to be interpreted as either agreeing or disagreeing with the construction given to Code 1975, § 13A-10-31 , by the Court of Criminal Appeals, as we have not reached that issue.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“An ex post facto law has been defined ... as one “that makes an action done before the passing of the law, and which was innocent when done, criminal; and punishes such action,” or “that aggravates a crime, or makes it greater than it was, when committed.” Calder v. Bull [3 U.S. (3 Dall.)] 386, 390 [ 1 L.Ed. 648 (1798)]. [Emphasis in original.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Alderette
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.