632 So. 2d 577 - Ex Parte Giles’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently December 2015 · most notably Taylor v. State (1994), Jackson v. State (1996)
50 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 North Carolina v. Pearce · Gregg v. Georgia · Teague v. Lane · Furman v. Georgia · Lockett v. Ohio
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he judge, and not the jury, is the final sentencing authority in criminal proceedings.' Ex parte Hays , 518 So.2d 768 , 774 (Ala. 1986).”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Taylor v. State · Jones v. State“[i]t would be anomalous to hold that § 13-11-6(3) allows sentence enhancement where the defendant unintentionally endangers persons other than the homicide victims, but disallows enhancement where the defendant intentionally threatens the lives of others.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]hat the right to trial by jury shall remain inviolate”
3 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.