531 So. 2d 2 - Owens v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently April 2016
11 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 Furman v. Georgia · Swain v. State of Alabama · Taylor v. Louisiana · Dobbert v. Florida · Proffitt v. Florida
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) Secreting or holding him in a place where he is not likely to be found, or”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Boyd v. State · Stewart v. State“(a) A person commits the crime of kidnapping in the first degree if he abducts another person with intent to”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Boyd v. State · Stewart v. State“"`Proof of intent, necessary to convict under § 13A-6-43 , "must be found by the jury and may be inferred from the facts and circumstances attending the whole transaction." Doss v. State , 23 Ala. App. 168 , 180 , 123 So. 237 , 248 (1929). . . .'”
3 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.