Ex Parte McCall’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently December 2015
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 500 So. 2d 68 - Ex Parte State of Alabama · 497 So. 2d 201 - Ex Parte State · 546 So. 2d 1009 - Allen v. State · 551 So. 2d 424 - McConnico v. State · 32 Ala. App. 604 - Brinkley 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he record clearly shows that the trial judge was aware of the objection and the reason counsel was requesting it.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"The law in Alabama is clear: if a defendant asks for a jury charge on a lesser included offense, he is entitled to such a charge if there is any rational basis or reasonable theory that would support a conviction on the lesser offense. Ala. Code 1975, § 13A-1-9 (b); Allen v. State , 546 So.2d 1009 , 1012 (Ala.Crim.App. 1989); McConnico v. State , 551 So.2d 424 (Ala.Crim.App. 1988)."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[n]o party may assign as error the court's . . . giving of an erroneous, misleading, incomplete, or otherwise improper oral charge, unless he objects thereto before the jury retires to consider its verdict, stating the matter to which he objects and the grounds of his objection.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ex Parte Pettway
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.