Broaden v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently August 2020
9 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 597 So. 2d 1308 - Ex Parte Rivers · Gordon v. Nagle · 555 So. 2d 1158 - Qualls v. State · 629 So. 2d 693 - Cunny v. State · 607 So. 2d 344 - McGee 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"These statutes are mandatory. If there is evidence that would require the application of one, or both, of these statutes, the prosecutor should bring that evidence to the attention of the court so that the trial court may sentence the defendant accordingly."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"This court on many occasions has held that the enhancement provisions of § 13A-12-250 and § 13A-12-270 , which provides for an enhanced sentence if the sale occurs within a three-mile radius of a public housing project, are mandatory. Cunny v. State , 629 So.2d 693 (Ala.Cr.App. 1993); Burks v. State , 611 So.2d 487 (Ala.Cr.App. 1992); McGee v. State , 607 So.2d 344 (Ala.Cr.App. 1992); Green v. State , 586 So.2d 54 (Ala.Cr.App. 1991). " ' "[W]e believe that the legislature clearly intended to protect these areas . . . from the evils associated with drug activities," Qualls v. State , 555 So.2d 1158 , 1165 (Ala.Cr.App. 1989), and to provide for more serious sentences to those individuals who sell illegal drugs near schools or housing projects.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"In addition to any penalties heretofore or hereafter provided by law for any person convicted of an unlawful sale of a controlled substance there is hereby imposed a penalty of five years incarceration in a state corrections facility with no provision for probation if the situs of such unlawful sale was on the campus or within a three-mile radius of the campus boundaries of any public or private school, college, university or other educational institution in this state."”
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.