607 So. 2d 354 - Whitley v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently December 2011
14 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 Batson v. Kentucky · Powers v. Ohio · McComb v. Jacksonville Paper Co. · Komen v. Robbins · Scott v. Rosenberg
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"`This court is bound by the record and not by allegations or arguments in brief reciting matters not disclosed by the record.' Webb v. State , 565 So.2d 1259 , 1260 (Ala.Cr.App. 1990). See also Acres v. State , 548 So.2d 459 (Ala.Cr.App. 1987). Further, we cannot predicate error from a silent record. Owens v. State , 597 So.2d 734 (Ala.Cr.App. 1992); Woodyard v. State , 428 So.2d 136 (Ala.Cr.App. 1982), aff'd, 428 So.2d 138 (Ala.), cert. denied, 462 U.S. 1136 , 103 S.Ct. 3120 , 77 L.Ed.2d 1373 (1983)."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“cited the fact that juror 128 had a relative that had been murdered as the motivating reason why [the State] did not strike him from the jury”
1 later decision 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.