495 So. 2d 726 - Middleton v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
December 1993
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Cherek v. United States · Boyd v. North Carolina · Espey v. State · 46 Ala. App. 36 - Rueffert v. State · Kissic 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to the jury to discharge their duties in such a manner as, not only to punish crime, but to protect the public from like offenses.”
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.