539 So. 2d 399 - Ex Parte Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently May 2010 · most notably Dill v. State (1991), 666 So. 2d 73 - Ex Parte Taylor (1995)
1 federal appellate · 34 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 539 So. 2d 375 - Thomas v. State
Most-quoted passages
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“"Pursuant to Rule 39 (c), A.R.App.P., we granted the defendant's petition to review the judgment of the Court of Criminal Appeals affirming his conviction and sentence of death. Thomas v. State, 539 So.2d 375 (Ala.Crim.App. 1988). After carefully and thoroughly considering the record of trial, the Court of Criminal Appeals' opinion, and the briefs and arguments of the parties, we find no basis for reversal of the judgment of the Court of Criminal Appeals."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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