Williams v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
August 1996
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 435 So. 2d 158 - Smith v. State · Ex Parte Jordan · Ford v. State · 447 So. 2d 1325 - Wakefield v. State · 515 So. 2d 137 - Lofton 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.
“"As stated in Phelps [ v. State , 435 So.2d 158 (Ala.Crim.App. 1983)], '[a]ny speculation that the jury might have found the defendant guilty of criminally negligent homicide is dissipated by the fact that they found him guilty of intentional murder.' The verdict would have been no different had the jury been charged on criminally negligent homicide. Jordan v. State , 486 So.2d 485 (Ala. 1986); Lofton v. State , 515 So.2d 137 (Ala.Crim.App. 1987); Jones v. State , 514 So.2d 1060 (Ala.Crim.App. 1987); A.R.A.P. 45."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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