Ex Parte Rutledge’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently June 2013 · most notably 577 So. 2d 474 - Kuenzel v. State (1990), 534 So. 2d 329 - Hooks v. State (1987)
36 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 Beck v. Alabama · Swansboro Country, Inc. v. Lumberman's Mortgage Co. · Union Labor Life Insurance v. Pireno · Shadle v. State · Washington 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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Morris only told Elder there was always a possibility that a law may be successfully challenged in court. There were simply no promises made that Elder would be paroled or that his sentence would be reduced. See 10 A.L.R. 4th 8 , § 33 (b). Counsel representations were not misleading. While it is true that under existing law defendants sentenced to life without parole cannot be paroled, no one can predict or state”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“that Alabama law will never be changed by the legislature or by the state or federal judiciary to permit appellant to be paroled. * * [N]either I nor any other mortal can foretell the future, especially when that future will be controlled by legislatures and courts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“that life without parole mean[s] life without parole”
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.