705 So. 2d 849 - Cothren v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently November 2013
13 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Edwards v. Arizona · Arizona v. Fulminante · Irvin v. Dowd · Moran v. Burbine
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“I think I want to talk to an attorney before I answer that,”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“"[The death penalty] statute has been upheld against constitutional challenges that it constitutes cruel and unusual punishment. See Tarver v. State , 553 So.2d 631 (Ala.Cr.App.), aff'd, 553 So.2d 633 (Ala.Cr.App. 1989), cert. denied, 494 U.S. 1090 , 110 S.Ct. 1837 , 108 L.Ed.2d 966 (1990), and cases cited therein; Thompson v. State , 542 So.2d 1286 (Ala.Crim.App. 1988), aff'd, 542 So.2d 1300 (Ala.) cert. denied, 493 U.S. 874 , 110 S.Ct. 208 , 107 L.Ed.2d 913 (1976)."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Duncan v. State“The facts of this case clearly establish that the collateral capital offenses were part of a continuous crime spree. There were overwhelming similarities in the charged crime and the collateral offense. . . . The appellant and his codefendants exhibited a distinctive method of criminal activity in each murder.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.