495 So. 2d 83 - Ex Parte Vaughn’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably New Properties, L.L.C. v. Stewart (2004), 497 So. 2d 587 - Woodberry v. State (1986)
31 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 Baker v. Citizens Bank of Guntersville · Wideman v. State · 374 So. 2d 316 - Scott v. State · Horn v. Smith · 47 Ala. App. 285 - Taylor 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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'the trial judge an opportunity to carefully review the evidence and to perfect the issues for review on appeal.'”
13 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. DDA v. State · T.G.F. v. D.L.F.“"[w]hen findings of fact are made in actions tried by the court without a jury, the question of the sufficiency of the evidence to support the findings may thereafter be raised whether or not the party raising the question has made in the court an objection to such findings or has made a motion to amend them or a motion for judgment or a motion for a new trial."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“"`This cause coming to be heard and said child and her mother, Judy Vaughn, the Hon. Michael O'Dell, Assistant District Attorney, and Hon. Stephen Bussman, counselor, being present in Court, having explained the nature of the proceedings to them, and the Court having heard the evidence finds the following facts; said child is a female child under 18 years and about 16 years of age and did with intent to cause serious physical injury to another person, cause serious injury to David Leath by means of a deadly weapon, or a dangerous instrument, to-wit: by cutting said David Leath with a butcher knife in the chest area and on the hand, in violation of [§ ]13A-6-20 of the Code of Alabama, against the peace and dignity of the State of Alabama ASSAULT 1st Degree (Felony) as charged in the petition, is delinquent, in need of the care and protection of the state, and is declared to be a ward of the Court, and it further appearing to the Court that it is to the best interest of said Paula Gail Vaughn that she be committed to the Alabama Department of Youth Services.'"”
2 later decisions 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.