571 So. 2d 1287 - Davis v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently June 2018
23 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 547 So. 2d 68 - Ex Parte Brannon · Ex Parte Chambers · 401 So. 2d 123 - Bracewell v. State · Bracewell v. State · Taylor v. City of Decatur
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A defendant's sentence is determined by the law in effect at the time of the commission of the offense.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. MH v. State · Singleton v. State“"The ground stated in Rule 20.1(c) [now, Rule 32.1(c)], i.e., '[t]he sentence imposed exceeds the maximum authorized by law, or is otherwise not authorized by law,' is not subject to the two-year period of limitations of Rule 20.2(c) [now Rule 32.2(c)] under the very language of Rule 20.2(c) [Rule 32.2(c)] itself."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The Constitution of the United States or of the State of Alabama requires a new trial, a new sentence proceeding, or other relief.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lancaster 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.