607 So. 2d 383 - Tatum v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably Boyd v. State (2003), 884 So. 2d 15 - Chambers v. State (2003)
33 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 608 So. 2d 345 - Bishop v. State · Ex Parte State · Bishop 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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'Where a simple reading of the petition for post-conviction relief shows that, assuming every allegation of the petition to be true, it is obviously without merit or is precluded, the circuit court [may] summarily dismiss that petition. . . .' Bishop v. State , 608 So.2d 345 (Ala. 1992) (quoting Bishop v. State , 592 So.2d 664 , 667 (Ala.Cr.App. 1991) (Bowen, J., dissenting)).”
6 later decisions 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.