56 Ala. App. 22 - Funches v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently December 2006 · most notably 397 So. 2d 211 - Holley v. State (1981), Thigpen v. State (1977)
25 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 Aguilar v. Texas · Spinelli v. United States · Clenney v. State · 53 Ala. App. 330 - Funches v. State · Yates 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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"We hold that it is proper for an indictment for an offense in violation of the Uniform Alabama Controlled Substances Act to contain the averment that the defendant has heretofore been convicted of an offense under the act."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"Any person convicted of a second or subsequent offense under this chapter may be imprisoned for a term up to twice the term otherwise authorized, fined an amount up to twice that otherwise authorized or both."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"Sec. 258 (53). Second or subsequent offenses. — (a) Any person convicted of a second or subsequent offense under this chapter may be imprisoned for a term up to twice the term outherwise (otherwise) authorized, fined an amount up to twice that otherwise authorized, or both. (b) For purposes of this section, an offense is considered a second or subsequent offense, if, prior to his conviction of the offense, the offender has at any time been convicted under this chapter or under any statute of the United States or of any state relating to narcotic drugs, marihuana, depressant, stimulant, or hallucinogenic drugs. (1971, No. 1407, p. 2397, Sec. 407, appvd. Sept. 16, 1971.)"”
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.