486 So. 2d 476 - Ex Parte State’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently March 2007
9 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 396 So. 2d 645 - Beck v. State · George v. State · Nichols v. State · 369 So. 2d 1251 - Cook v. State · Barbour 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.
“"[T]he central issue in the guilt phase of a capital murder trial is whether the State has satisfied its burden of proving beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant is guilty of the crime charged. Beck [v. State] , 396 So.2d [645] at 662 [(Ala. 1980)]. This kind of question could have easily shifted the focus of the jury's attention to the issue of punishment, which is an improper consideration at the guilt phase of the trial."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ex Parte Smith“as long as a prosecutor does not comment on the possibility that the defendant will commit future illegal acts, he may legitimately argue to the jury the need for law enforcement as a deterrence to crime.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ex Parte Smith“[p]unishment is `an improper consideration at the guilt phase of [a capital] trial.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.