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.
“"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 passagee.g. McGahee v. State“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“[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 passagee.g. McGahee v. State
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.