590 So. 2d 354 - Ex Parte Bailey’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently November 2010
22 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 368 So. 2d 871 - Cumbo v. State · Skelton v. City of Birmingham · Lambert v. United States · 363 So. 2d 1020 - Thomas v. State · Day 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“". . . [C]ircumstantial evidence does not preclude the jury from determining a defendant's guilt or innocence. In Ex parte Davis , 548 So.2d 1041 (Ala. 1989), we stated that either circumstantial evidence or direct evidence may be used to prove the guilt of a defendant. Further, in reviewing the sufficiency of the evidence, we must view the circumstantial evidence in the light most favorable to the prosecution to determine whether the jury might reasonably have found that the evidence excluded every reasonable hypothesis except guilt. . . .”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Spencer v. State · Ingram v. State“The general standard by which we review the evidence is as follows:”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. JCC v. State · J.W.B. v. State“' "[C]ircumstantial evidence alone may be sufficient in conjunction with other facts and circumstances which tend to connect the accused with the commission of the crime to sustain a conviction.”
2 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.