549 So. 2d 562 - James v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently August 2018
21 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 Manson v. Brathwaite · Doss v. State · 402 So. 2d 1088 - Flowers v. State · 443 So. 2d 1371 - Holsemback v. State · 419 So. 2d 610 - Lidge 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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“' " 'to be a lesser included offense of one charged in an indictment, the lesser offense must be one that is necessarily included, in all of its essential elements, in the greater offense charged[,]' Payne v. State , 391 So.2d 140 , 143 (Ala. Cr. App.), writ denied, 391 So.2d 146 (Ala. 1980), ... unless it is so declared by statute.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Wright v. State · Harris v. State“(1) Uses force against the person of the owner or any person present with intent to overcome his physical resistance or physical power of resistance; or”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“"(a) A person commits the crime of robbery in the first degree if he violates Section 13A-8-43 and he: "(1) Is armed with a deadly weapon or dangerous instrument; or”
2 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.