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1985

Citation profile

162
cited by 162 later decisions
3
states following
December 2014
most recently cited

4 federal appellate · 153 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 162 later decisions — most recently December 2014 · most notably 577 So. 2d 474 - Kuenzel v. State (1990), 516 So. 2d 726 - Jackson v. State (1985)

4 federal appellate · 153 state decisions

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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 Gregg v. Georgia · Irvin v. Dowd · Ake v. Oklahoma · Sheppard v. Maxwell · Polk County v. Dodson

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

  1. “proper manner for ascertaining whether adverse publicity may have biased the prospective jurors is through the voir dire examination.”
    57 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “' Polk County v. Dodson , 454 U.S. 312 , 318-19 , 102 S.Ct. 445 , 449-50 , 70 L.Ed.2d 509 (1981). This Court, in Sparks v. Parker , 368 So.2d 528 , 530 (Ala. 1979), quoted the New Jersey Supreme Court as follows:”
    7 later decisions quote this exact passage
  3. “Petitioner interprets Ake as requiring that he have access, provided by the State, to a forensic pathologist who would furnish assistance to petitioner as to the cause of death of the victim, Annie Laurie Orr.”
    3 later decisions 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.