667 So. 2d 142 - Sorrells v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently October 2016
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 571 So. 2d 368 - Cline v. State · 587 So. 2d 448 - Massey v. State · 542 So. 2d 1312 - Harris v. State · 507 So. 2d 551 - Ex Parte Guess · 644 So. 2d 1267 - Gladden 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[I]n Ex parte Guess, 507 So.2d 551 (Ala.1987), the Alabama Supreme Court found that the trial court had not erred in sentencing the [defendant] under the Firearm Enhancement Act [§ 13A-5-6] in the absence of a jury finding, as there was evidence that the appellant had put a pistol to the victim’s head and then had knocked him unconscious with a blunt object. In the present case, there was evidence that the appellant had fired a shotgun at the victim, a law enforcement officer. Therefore, the trial court did not err in sentencing the appellant to 10 years’ imprisonment under [§ 13A-5-6].””
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.