992 So. 2d 783 - White v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Teague v. Lane · 381 So. 2d 26 - Street v. City of Anniston · Mobile Housing Board v. Cross · 18 Ala. App. 164 - Dickson v. Alabama MacHinery & Supply Co. · 445 So. 2d 873 - Jones v. Casey
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`As a general rule, a criminal offender must be sentenced pursuant to the statute in effect at the time of the commission of the offense, at least in the absence of an expression of intent by the legislature to make the new statute applicable to previously committed crimes.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. MH v. State“govern[s] the offense, the offender, and all proceedings incident thereto.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. MH 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.