587 So. 2d 1218 - White v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1990

Citation profile

cited by 73 later decisions

states following

February 2018

most recently cited

73 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 73 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably 666 So. 2d 73 - Ex Parte Taylor (1995), Taylor v. State (1994)

73 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 Strickland v. Washington · Batson v. Kentucky · Caldwell v. Mississippi · Duren v. Missouri · Mahan & Rowsey, Inc. v. Oklahoma Natural Gas

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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

“' "[U]nless intoxication, in and of itself, so impairs a defendant's mind that he is 'unconscious of the meaning of his words,' the fact that the defendant was intoxicated at the time he confessed is simply one factor to be considered when reviewing the totality of the circumstances surrounding the confession.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. Jackson v. State · Waldrop v. State
“'[T]he purpose of the felony-murder doctrine is to hold felons accountable for unintended deaths caused by their dangerous conduct.' W. LaFave and A. Scott, 2 Substantive Criminal Law § 7.5 at 210 (1986). See Ex parte Ritter , 375 So.2d 270 , 273-74 (Ala. 1979), vacated on other grounds, 448 U.S. 903 , 100 S.Ct. 3044 , 65 L.Ed.2d 1133 (1980); Ex parte Bates , 461 So.2d 5 , 7 (Ala. 1984). Here the evidence shows that the defendant intentionally killed his wife. There is no rational basis for a verdict convicting him of felony-murder. § 13A-1-9 (b).”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. Taylor v. State · Dunaway v. State
“In Alabama, '[b]urglary, like trespass, is an offense against the possession, and hence the test for the purpose of determining in whom the ownership of the premises should be laid in an indictment is not the title, but the occupancy or possession at the time the offense was committed.' Hamilton v. State , 283 Ala. 540 , 545 , 219 So.2d 369 , 374 , cert. denied, 396 U.S. 868 , 90 S.Ct. 134 , 24 L.Ed.2d 121 (1969) (quoting Fuller v. State , 28 Ala. App. 28 , 30 , 177 So. 353 , 354 (1937)). 'A person "enters or remains unlawfully”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. Riggs v. State · Folsom 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.