586 So. 2d 277 - Fountain v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently February 2013
24 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 Scott v. Rosenberg · 448 So. 2d 404 - Ex Parte Washington · 33 Ala. App. 451 - Jones v. State · 462 So. 2d 972 - Leverett v. State · 407 So. 2d 169 - Showers 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"[A] party cannot allege as error proceedings in the trial court that were invited by him or were a natural consequence of his own action. . . . A defendant cannot invite error by his conduct and later profit by the error. "”
13 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Tribble v. State · Forte v. State“"[A] trial judge is not required to repeat any other part of his oral charge when answering a specific inquiry from the jury, and it is assumed that the jury will consider the previously given instructions along with those given in the supplemental charge."”
3 later decisions 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.