54 Ala. App. 270 - Dean v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently June 2010 · most notably 414 So. 2d 998 - Dickerson v. State (1982), 446 So. 2d 68 - Smith v. State (1984)
51 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 · Hubbard v. State · Ex Parte Russell · Prince v. State · Bradley v. Jones
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Code of Ala. 1975, § 15-5-8, provides: “A search warrant must be executed in the daytime unless the affidavits state positively that the property is on the person or in the place to be searched, in which case it may be executed at any time of the day or night. The issuing judge or magistrate must state in the warrant, according to the character of the affidavits, whether it is to be executed by day or at any time of the day or night.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“"The defendant did not stand indicted for a capital felony; observance of the statutory mandates of this section [relative to a special venire in capital cases] was not required."”
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.