643 So. 2d 610 - McCray v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently August 2015
6 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 · Alabama v. Smith · Colten v. Commonwealth of Kentucky · Texas v. McCullough · Ex Parte 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A ‘dangerous instrument’ is defined as: “ ‘Any instrument, article or, substance which, under the circumstances in which it is used, attempted to be used or threatened to be used, is highly capable of causing death or serious physical injury....’ “ § 13A-1-2(12)[, Ala.Code 1975].””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Thomas v. State“The Supreme Court of Alabama in Connolly v. State , 602 So.2d 452 (Ala. 1992), held that oral notice of intent to invoke the Habitual Felony Offender Act was sufficient and that written notice was not necessary.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“particularly in view of the fact that the judge presiding over the second trial was not the same judge who imposed the first sentence.”
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.