584 So. 2d 544 - Raper v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently February 2017 · most notably 710 So. 2d 1276 - Williams v. State (1996), 779 So. 2d 1225 - Ingram v. State (1999)
28 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 Carnegie v. United States · Brame v. United States · Garcia v. Ingram · 368 So. 2d 871 - Cumbo v. State · Skelton v. City of Birmingham
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(a) A person shall not drive or be in actual physical control of any vehicle while: “(1) There is 0.08 percent or more by weight of alcohol in his or her blood; “(2) Under the influence of alcohol; “(3) Under the influence of a controlled substance to a degree which renders him or her incapable of safely driving; “(4) Under the combined influence of alcohol and a controlled substance to a degree which renders him or her incapable of safely driving; or “(5) Under the influence of any substance which impairs the mental or physical faculties of such person to a degree which renders him or her incapable of safely driving.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Thomas“`Where an indictment contains language which conveys the meaning of a statute, see § 15-8-21, Code of Alabama (1975), the violation of a code section may be satisfactorily charged despite the failure to cite the statute.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[A] trial court has broad discretion in fashioning a jury instruction, provided it accurately reflects the law and facts of the case.”
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.