596 So. 2d 598 - State v. Austin’s Empirical Analysis

1992

Citation profile

cited by 16 later decisions

states following

November 2012

most recently cited

16 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently November 2012

16 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Colorado v. Connelly · Castor v. United States · Phillips v. State · Harris 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

“The intoxicated condition of an accused when he makes a confession, unless it goes to the extent of mania, does not affect the admissibility and evidence of the confession, but may affect its weight and credibility.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. Jackson v. State · Lewis v. State
“"We have often held that `the fact that a defendant may suffer from a mental impairment or low intelligence will not, without other evidence, render a confession involuntary.' See Colorado v. Connelly, 479 U.S. 157, 163-65 , 107 S.Ct. 515, 520 , 93 L.Ed.2d 473 (1986); Baker v. State, 599 So.2d 60, 63 (Ala.Cr.App.1991), State v. Austin, [ 596 So.2d 598 (Ala.Cr.App.1991)] supra, Holladay v. State, 549 So.2d 122 (Ala.Cr.App.1988), aff'd, 549 So.2d 135 (Ala.1989), cert. denied, 493 U.S. 1012 , 110 S.Ct. 575 , 107 L.Ed.2d 569 (1989)."”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. 656 So. 2d 385 - Youngblood v. State · 898 So. 2d 790 - Lee v. State
“` White v. State , 587 So.2d 1218 (Ala.Cr.App. 1990).'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. Waldrop v. State · 824 So. 2d 804 - Grayson 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.