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1986

Citation profile

32
cited by 32 later decisions
1
states following
November 2005
most recently cited

32 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently November 2005 · most notably 597 So. 2d 734 - Owens v. State (1992), Johnson v. State (2001)

32 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 29 Ala. App. 349 - Wilkins v. State · 29 Ala. App. 399 - Robertson v. State · 444 So. 2d 884 - Robinson v. State · 51 Ala. App. 613 - Whitehurst v. State · Whitehurst 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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “change in the nature of the prosecution against the appellant on appeal to the circuit court.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. 542 So. 2d 1301 - Royer v. State · 528 So. 2d 1151 - Sisson v. State
  2. “"JEAN W. GENTILE, whose name to the affiant is otherwise unknown, did unlawfully drive or be in actual physical control of a vehicle while under the influence of alcohol in violation of § 32-5A-191 (a)(2), Code of Alabama , 1975, as last amended, contrary to the provisions of Ordinance No. 552, duly adopted and ordained by the Mayor and City Council of the City of Guntersville, Alabama, which said Ordinance adopted misdemeanors under the laws of the state of Alabama, prior to the commencement of said act or acts and prescribed the punishment for violations thereof." (R. 1.)”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. 542 So. 2d 1301 - Royer v. State · 589 So. 2d 809 - Gentile v. City of Guntersville
  3. “driving while under the influence of alcohol,”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. 542 So. 2d 1301 - Royer v. State · 589 So. 2d 809 - Gentile v. City of Guntersville

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.