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← 721 SO2D 235 - Weakley v. State

Weakley v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1998

Citation profile

12
cited by 12 later decisions
1
states following
February 2016
most recently cited

11 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Johnson v. Zerbst · Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · Coleman v. Alabama · Hamilton v. Alabama · White v. State of Maryland

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

  1. “The right of a defendant to have counsel present at arraignment is a jurisdictional prerequisite *Page 289 to a conviction.”
    2 later decisions 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.