491 So. 2d 1046 - Wiggins v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently December 2015 · most notably 778 So. 2d 199 - Hyde v. State (1998), 549 So. 2d 122 - Holladay v. State (1988)
38 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 361 So. 2d 1106 - Chavers v. State · 435 So. 2d 158 - Smith v. State · 435 So. 2d 151 - Ex Parte Nettles · 435 So. 2d 146 - Nettles v. State · 463 So. 2d 170 - Ex Parte Weems
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In Robinson v. State , 441 So.2d 1045 , 1047 (Ala.Cr.App. 1983), this court observed that a person 'who intentionally draws a gun in response to or in anticipation of a confrontation with another is certainly aware of the risk that the gun might discharge; therefore, he cannot be guilty of mere criminal negligence.'”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage“An accused is not entitled *Page 234 to have the jury charged on a lesser included offense unless there is a reasonable theory from the evidence to support the lesser offense.”
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.