482 So. 2d 1318 - Gray v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1985

Citation profile

cited by 30 later decisions

states following

March 2017

most recently cited

30 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently March 2017 · most notably 710 So. 2d 1276 - Williams v. State (1996), 698 So. 2d 1100 - Gaddy v. State (1995)

30 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 Haynes v. Washington · Blackburn v. Alabama · Phillips v. State · Boyle v. State · Harris 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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

“'When the crime charged involves a specific intent, such as murder, and there is evidence of intoxication, the trial judge should instruct the jury on the lesser included offense of manslaughter.' Gray v. State , 482 So.2d 1318 , 1319 (Ala.Cr.App. 1985).”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. Harper v. State · Stephens v. State
“A judge should not leave the jury with `the impression that the defendant would be left to go free and unfettered if the jury determined him not guilty by reason of insanity' Hanes v. State , 56 Ala. App. 467 , 469 , 323 So.2d 118 , 119 (1975).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. Tankersley v. State · 710 So. 2d 1276 - Williams v. State
“'What might happen if he were sent to the insane asylum, instead of the penitentiary, should not have been thrown into the case to influence the verdict.' Boyle v. State , 229 Ala. 212 , 225 , 154 So. 575 , 587 (1934).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. 585 So. 2d 225 - Bass v. State · 686 So. 2d 495 - Ivery 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.