516 So. 2d 876 - Hill v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently February 2017 · most notably Loggins v. State (2000), 555 So. 2d 780 - Ex Parte Siebert (1989)
39 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 North Carolina v. Butler · Castor v. United States · Edmonds v. Virginia · Collins v. Illinois · Fletcher 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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'[Section] 13A-6-3 (a)(2) is designed to cover those situations where the jury does not believe a defendant is guilty of murder but also does not believe the killing was totally justified by self-defense.' Shultz v. State , 480 So.2d 73 , 76 (Ala.Cr.App. 1985). Furthermore, 'the evidence regarding self-defense was conflicting, therefore it is a matter left to the jury to decide. Ex parte Johnson , 433 So.2d 479 (Ala. 1983), Davis v. State , 450 So.2d 473 (Ala.Cr.App. 1984).'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“'Photographs depicting the character and location of external wounds on the body of the deceased victim are admissible even if they constitute cumulative evidence based on an undisputed matter.' Hines v. State , 365 So.2d 320 , 321 (Ala.Cr.App.), cert. denied, 365 So.2d 322 (Ala. 1978). Lovett v. State , 491 So.2d 1034 , 1035 (Ala.Cr.App. 1986), cert. denied, 491 So.2d 1039 (Ala. 1986). See also C. Gamble, McElroy's Alabama Evidence § 207.01(2) (3d ed. 1977). Thus, this court has held that photographs of wounds to a deceased victim's head were admissible even where cumulative and relating to an undisputed matter. See Kinder v. State , 515 So.2d 55 , (Ala.Cr.App. 1986); Scanland v. State , 473 So.2d 1182 (Ala.Cr.App. 1985), cert. denied, 474 U.S. 1035 , 106 S.Ct. 602 , 88 L.Ed.2d 581 (1985) Harrell v. State , 470 So.2d 1303 (Ala.Cr.App. 1984), affirmed , 470 So.2d 1309 (Ala. 1985), cert. denied , 474 U.S. 935 , 106 S.Ct. 269 , 88 L.Ed.2d 276 (1985).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“". . . 'The photographs were not immaterial but were illustrative of the crime scene and corroborative of the testimony of . . . the first policeman to arrive on the scene. . . . A photograph "is competent evidence of anything, of which it is competent and relevant for a witness to give a verbal description." 23 C.J.S. Criminal Law § 852(1)(a) (1961).' Harrell v. State , [ 470 So.2d 1303 , 1307 (Ala.Cr.App. 1984), affirmed, 470 So.2d 1309 (Ala.), cert. denied, 474 U.S. 935 , 106 S.Ct. 269 , 88 L.Ed.2d 276 (1985)]."”
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.