Sockwell v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1993

Citation profile

cited by 68 later decisions

states following

June 2025

most recently cited

67 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably Loggins v. State (2000), 778 So. 2d 199 - Hyde v. State (1998)

67 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 Batson v. Kentucky · Anderson v. City of Bessemer City · Witherspoon v. Illinois · Wainwright v. Witt · American Manufacturers Mutual Insurance v. United States

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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

““In Lockhart v. McCree, 476 U.S. 162 , 106 S.Ct. 1758 , 90 L.Ed.2d 137 (1986), the Supreme Court held that the Constitution does not prohibit states from ‘death qualification’ of juries in capital cases and that so qualifying a jury does not deprive a defendant of an impartial jury. 476 U.S. at 173 , 106 S.Ct. at 1764 . Alabama Courts have consistently held likewise. See Williams v. State, 556 So.2d 737 (Ala.Crim.App.1986), rev’d in part, 556 So.2d 744 (Ala.1987); Edwards v. State, 515 So.2d 86, 88 (Ala.Crim.App.1987); Martin v. State, 494 So.2d 749 (Ala.Crim.App.1985).””
7 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. Boyle v. State · Wilkerson v. State
“`Reasonable cause is equated with probable cause.'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. Smith v. State · Minor v. State
“"`"In Cage v. Louisiana, [ 498 U.S. 39 , 111 S.Ct. 328 , 112 L.Ed.2d 339 (1990) ] the United States Supreme Court found that if the instruction equated `reasonable doubt' to `grave uncertainty,' and `actual substantial doubt' and stated that what was required was `moral certainty' a reasonable jury could interpret the instruction to allow a lesser degree of proof to convict than that required by the due process clause. It was the use of all three phrases in conjunction with each other that the Supreme Court determined was unconstitutional in Cage. Gaskins v. McKellar, 500 U.S. 961 , 111 S.Ct. 2277 , 114 L.Ed.2d 728 (1991)." "` Sockwell v. State, 675 So.2d 4, 23 (Ala. Cr.App.1993).'"”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. 725 So. 2d 1003 - Price v. State · 807 So. 2d 18 - Reeves v. State

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.