505 So. 2d 1075 - Phillips v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently October 2015
14 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 Ex Parte Cofer · 406 So. 2d 1036 - Parker v. State · 441 So. 2d 1048 - Hutcherson v. State · 440 So. 2d 1116 - Cofer v. State · 480 So. 2d 41 - Popwell 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]ny touching of the sexual or other intimate parts of a person not married to the actor, done for the purpose of gratifying the sexual desire of either party.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“"(a) A person commits the crime of sexual abuse in the second degree if:”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““ ‘Common use of the English language would indicate that the term “intimate parts,” in the context of the statute, refers to any part of the body which a reasonable person would consider private with respect to touching by another.’ Parker v. State, 406 So.2d 1036 (Ala.Cr.App.1981), cited in Hutcherson v. State, 441 So.2d 1048 (Ala.Cr.App.1983).””
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.