521 So. 2d 80 - Cade v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently August 2000
1 federal appellate · 6 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 Gregg v. Georgia · Furman v. Georgia · Public Broadcasting Service v. Network Project · McDougall v. North Carolina · City of Philadelphia v. New Jersey
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An attempt to arrest the appellant was being made when he killed Sheriff Sizemore. Cade points out in regard to the third instance that, on consideration of his application for rehearing, the Court of Criminal Appeals clarified and extended its opinion and stated that it had relied upon the original opinion to dispose of this issue. The court stated: This court, in addressing this issue, looked to the appeal of the initial conviction, in which essentially the same evidence was presented. This court concluded that”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`there was absolutely no doubt' that the evidence presented at trial proved that the appellant murdered Sheriff Sizemore and that Sizemore was killed when he `attempted to arrest appellant,' without a warrant, for a `threatened breach of the peace in his presence.' Cade v. State, 375 So.2d 802, 827 (Ala.Cr. App.1978).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“As we have already determined in this rehearing opinion, as well as in the original opinion, and as the jury determined at trial, the State sufficiently proved that Sheriff Sizemore was arresting or attempting to arrest the appellant at the time of the shooting.”
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.