571 So. 2d 368 - Cline v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently June 2018
18 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 Bozza v. United States · Avis Rent A Car System, Inc. v. City of Chicago · In re Bonner · Musser v. States · Breest v. Helgemoe
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Since the first sentence imposed on [the defendant] was invalid, the trial court had not only the power, but the duty , to sentence [the defendant] as required by law. See, Bozza v. United States , 330 U.S. 160 , 67 S.Ct. 645 , 91 L.Ed. 818 (1947)."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Love v. State · Love v. State“[t]he Alabama courts have considered a sentence without an allocution to be 'erroneous,' Ex parte Anderson , 434 So.2d 737 , 738 (Ala. 1983), and mandatorily subject to remand for 'proper sentence under law,' id.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Newton v. State“In pronouncing sentence, the court shall: (1) Afford the defendant an opportunity to make a statement in his or her own behalf before imposing sentence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Newton 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.