615 So. 2d 1306 - Brown v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently March 2011
3 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 368 So. 2d 554 - Sprinkle v. State · Sprinkle v. State · 444 So. 2d 884 - Robinson v. State · 42 Ala. App. 400 - Wade v. State · 504 So. 2d 370 - Montgomery 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"(1) The age, background and family ties, relationships and circumstances of the defendant. "(2) The defendant's reputation, character, and health. "(3) The defendant's prior criminal record, including prior releases on recognizance or on secured appearance bonds, and other pending cases. "(4) The identity of responsible members of the community who will vouch for the defendant's reliability. "(5) Violence or lack of violence in the alleged commission of the offense. "(6) The nature of the offense charged, the apparent probability of conviction, and the likely sentence, insofar as these factors are relevant to the risk of nonappearance. "(7) The type of weapon used, e.g., knife, pistol, shotgun, sawed-off shotgun. "(8) Threats made against victims and/or witnesses. "(9) The value of property taken during the alleged commission of the offense. "(10) Whether the property allegedly taken was recovered or not; damage or lack of damage to property allegedly taken. "(11) Residence of the defendant, including consideration of real property ownership, and length of residence in his or her place of domicile. "(12) In cases where the defendant is charged with a drug offense, evidence of selling or pusher activity should indicate a substantial increase in the amount of bond. "(13) Consideration of the defendant's employment status and history, the location of defendant's employment, e.g., whether employed in the county where the alleged offense occurred, and the defendant's financial co”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“provides that bail be calculated at a rate of $1,000 per year of the maximum potential sentence. Wade . Here, the appellant faces up to life imprisonment or 99 years for conviction of a Class A felony and up to 20 years' imprisonment for each conviction of a Class B felony. If the appellant is convicted of all counts and is sentenced to consecutive maximum sentences, then he faces a potential prison sentence of 159 years. The”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“(13) Consideration of the defendant's employment status and history, the location of defendant's employment, e.g., whether employed in the county where the alleged offense occurred, and the defendant's financial condition.”
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.