593 So. 2d 130 - Levett v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently February 2017
10 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 Illinois v. Gates · Aguilar v. Texas · Spinelli v. United States · Boston Firefighters Union, Local 718 v. Boston Chapter, NAACP · Musser v. States
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““‘[A] mistrial “specifies such fundamental error in a trial as to vitiate the result,” Diamond v. State, 363 So.2d 109, 112 (Ala.Cr.App.1978), and should be granted only when a “high degree of ‘manifest necessity’ ” is demonstrated, Wadsworth v. State, 439 So.2d 790, 792 (Ala.Cr.App.1983), cert. denied, 466 U.S. 930 , 104 S.Ct. 1716 , 80 L.Ed.2d 188 (1984).’ Garnett v. State, 555 So.2d 1153, 1155 (Ala.Cr.App.1989).””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Chambers v. State“The State's evidence was sufficient to present a prima facie case of possession of controlled substances. Whether or not someone else placed the cocaine in the appellant's pocket was a jury question.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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