Ashley v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that the trial court erred in refusing a manslaughter instruction when two witnesses testified that the defendant appeared to be \high\ or \on drugs\
• finding reversible error in a capital-murder case for failure to provide a manslaughter jury instruction when death occurred during a burglary

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

20 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Hall v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1999-10-01· cited 155×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2000-04-28· cited 86×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2000-05-26· cited 74×
• Clark v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2003-06-27· cited 68×
• Lewis v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2007-11-02· cited 64×
• Ex Parte McWhorter
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 2000-08-11· cited 57×
• Blackmon v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2006-08-25· cited 48×
• Wilson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2010-11-05· cited 48×
• McGowan v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2005-07-08· cited 44×
• Gobble v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2010-02-05· cited 42×
• Waldrop v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2000-12-01· cited 41×
• Bryant v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2011-02-04· cited 34×
• Brownfield v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2007-04-27· cited 31×
• Donald Dwayne Whatley v. State of Alabama.
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2010-10-01· cited 29×
• Drinkard v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1998-12-18· cited 27×
• Tomlin v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2002-11-22· cited 27×
• Floyd v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2007-09-28· cited 11×
• Bailey v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1995-09-08
• Ex parte Michael Timothy Huff PETITION FOR WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS (In re: Michael Timothy Huff v. State of Alabama) (Russell Circuit Court: CC-23-305 and CC-23-549; Criminal Appeals: CR-2023-0983).
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 2025-12-19
• Jordaan Stanly Creque v. State of Alabama
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2026-06-26

Cites

44 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Batson v. Kentucky
  Supreme Court· 1986-04-30· cited 16,401×
• Powers v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1991-04-01· cited 2,917×
• Victor v. Nebraska
  Supreme Court· 1994-05-16· cited 1,656×
• Edmonson v. Leesville Concrete Co.
  Supreme Court· 1991-06-03· cited 1,403×
• JEB v. Alabama Ex Rel. TB
  Supreme Court· 1994-04-19· cited 1,335×
• Georgia v. McCollum
  Supreme Court· 1992-06-18· cited 1,235×
• Cage v. Louisiana
  Supreme Court· 1990-11-13· cited 1,172×
• Ex Parte Bankhead
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1991-05-24· cited 312×
• Ex Parte Bird
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1991-12-06· cited 258×
• Chavers v. State
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1978-04-07· cited 230×
• Ex Parte Kyzer
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1981-03-06· cited 217×
• Ex Parte Bankhead
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1993-04-16· cited 157×
• Henderson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1990-11-16· cited 148×
• Ex Parte Henderson
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1991-04-11· cited 143×
• People v. Perry
  New York Court of Appeals· 1984-02-21· cited 102×
• Powell v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1988-11-10· cited 100×
• McNair v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1992-07-24· cited 99×
• Herrera v. Redman
  Supreme Court· 1989-10-30· cited 93×
• Government of the Virgin Islands v. Ernesto Carmona
  Third Circuit· 1970-01-22· cited 91×
• Coon v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1986-07-15· cited 78×