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549 So. 2d 572 - Nails v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1989

Citation profile

7
cited by 7 later decisions
1
states following
January 1993
most recently cited

7 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Young v. State · 409 So. 2d 466 - Gullatt v. State · 412 So. 2d 296 - Hughes v. State · 406 So. 2d 1036 - Parker v. State · 494 So. 2d 705 - Parrish 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “"Common use of the English language would indicate that the term `intimate parts,' in the context of the statute, refers to any part of the body which a reasonable person would consider private with respect to touching by another." Parker v. State, 406 So.2d 1036, 1036 (Ala.Crim.App.), cert. denied, 406 So.2d 1041 (Ala.1981)."”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “The function of this court is not to determine whether the evidence is believable beyond a reasonable doubt, but to decide whether there is legal evidence from which a jury could by fair inference find the defendant guilty.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “[a]ny touching of the sexual or other intimate parts of a person not married to the actor, done for the purpose of gratifying the sexual desire of either party.”
    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.