528 So. 2d 1151 - Sisson v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1987

Citation profile

cited by 13 later decisions

states following

August 2000

most recently cited

13 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently August 2000

13 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 435 So. 2d 158 - Smith v. State · Lester v. State · 501 So. 2d 1136 - City of Dothan v. Holloway · Ex Parte Hightower · Simpson 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

“"JEAN W. GENTILE, whose name to the affiant is otherwise unknown, did unlawfully drive or be in actual physical control of a vehicle while under the influence of alcohol in violation of § 32-5A-191 (a)(2), Code of Alabama , 1975, as last amended, contrary to the provisions of Ordinance No. 552, duly adopted and ordained by the Mayor and City Council of the City of Guntersville, Alabama, which said Ordinance adopted misdemeanors under the laws of the state of Alabama, prior to the commencement of said act or acts and prescribed the punishment for violations thereof." (R. 1.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. 565 So. 2d 1251 - Vance v. City of Hoover · 589 So. 2d 809 - Gentile v. City of Guntersville
“"(3) Under the influence of a controlled substance to a degree which renders him incapable of safely driving; "(4) Under the combined influence of alcohol and a controlled substance to a degree which renders him incapable of safely driving; or "(5) Under the influence of any substance which impairs the mental or physical faculties of such person to a degree which renders him incapable of safely driving."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. 544 So. 2d 981 - Collier v. State · 589 So. 2d 809 - Gentile v. City of Guntersville
“not[ing] that the mere citation of § 32-5A-191 (a)(1) . . . is insufficient to charge that particular offense in the absence of language specifying the 'conduct sought to be condemned' by it.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. 565 So. 2d 1251 - Vance v. City of Hoover · 565 So. 2d 1255 - Frazier v. City of Montgomery

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.