598 So. 2d 1054 - Davis v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently December 2016 · most notably 730 So. 2d 652 - Ex Parte Woodall (1998), 971 So. 2d 43 - Robitaille v. State (2005)
26 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 555 So. 2d 818 - Johnson v. State · 485 So. 2d 787 - Ex Parte Wilhite · 469 So. 2d 713 - Jones v. State · Milner v. State · 24 Ala. App. 370 - Walters v. State
Most-quoted passages
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“"The evidence before the jury indicated that Pilley had been in the Changing Times Lounge previously, and that he knew the layout of the bar. (R. 364.) There was testimony that the night of the murders he had been overheard discussing obtaining weapons and `easy money.' (R. 379.) Witnesses saw him and Andrew Apicella in the Changing Times Lounge late on the night of the murders. Witnesses described him as acting nervous during the evening. At one time, he asked a bar patron if Edward Dodd owned the bar and whether Dodd was carrying a gun. (R. 441.) Evidence indicated that two weapons were used in the murders; the position of the bodies of the victims when found indicated the five victims had been separated the Dodds were killed in the pool-table area of the bar, and the three customers were killed on the other side of the establishment. That the victims appeared to have been laid on their faces with their heads in their hands before being shot in the head indicates that they had been deliberately `executed' by their killers. Later that evening, Pilley and Apicella split approximately $300, including five $2 bills, similar to the bills that one of the murder victims had kept in his wallet. (R. 521.) Later, the Apicella family's lawyer turned over to the police jewelry belonging to Pamela Dodd. "Accepting as true all the evidence introduced by the State, and according the State all legitimate inferences therefrom, and viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the pro”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Ex Parte Pilley · Reid v. State“any conflict in testimony between witnesses as to the facts presents a jury question and in no way undermines the sufficiency of the State's evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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