50 Ala. App. 150 - Wilkerson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
13
cited by 13 later decisions
1
states following
March 1985
most recently cited
11 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Anderson v. Alabama · Garrett v. State · Truex v. State · Smith v. Smith
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“there must be either a positive intention to kill, or an act of violence from which, ordinarily, in the usual course of events, death or great bodily injury may be a consequence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"The unlawful and felonious killing of another without malice, express or implied by voluntarily depriving him of life."”
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.