536 So. 2d 162 - Benton v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently October 2016 · most notably 642 So. 2d 979 - Oryang v. State (1993), 645 So. 2d 326 - Cartwright v. State (1994)
25 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 Cotton v. Federal Land Bank of Columbia · 435 So. 2d 158 - Smith v. State · 415 So. 2d 1210 - Moore v. State · 462 So. 2d 1037 - Vinzant v. State · 515 So. 2d 55 - Kinder 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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'Because the element of intent, being a state of mind or mental purpose, is usually incapable of direct proof, it may be inferred from the character of the assault, the use of a deadly weapon and other attendant circumstances.' Johnson [ v. State , 390 So.2d 1160 ], 1167 [(Ala.Cr.App.), writ denied, Ex parte Johnson , 390 So.2d 1168 (Ala. 1980)].”
5 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.