Ex Parte Lucas

How courts have described this case

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

• “A person is criminally liable if the result would not have occurred but for his conduct [.... ]”
• in order to prove causation in a capital-murder case, referring to medical-malpractice law that a mother who withheld medical treatment from her injured child could be convicted only if the child's death would not have occurred but for her failure to provide medical treatment

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

11 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Bennett
  Arizona Supreme Court· 2006-11-09· cited 216×
• Turner v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2003-08-29· cited 73×
• United States v. Scott
  Second Circuit· 2021-03-02· cited 57×
• Miller v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2004-10-29· cited 25×
• Dorsey v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2002-03-01· cited 23×
• Franklin v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2008-12-19· cited 16×
• State v. Thornton
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2011-06-22· cited 12×
• Purvi Patel v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2016-07-22· cited 10×
• State v. Scroggs
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 2017-04-04· cited 7×
• Lucas v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2001-01-12· cited 2×
• Files v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2001-08-31

Cites

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

• Cumbo v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1978-12-19· cited 507×
• Faircloth v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1984-07-17· cited 362×
• Ex Parte Faircloth
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1985-05-10· cited 319×
• Ex Parte Cumbo
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1979-04-06· cited 303×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1996-03-08· cited 144×
• Ex Parte Smith
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1997-04-18· cited 129×
• McMillian v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1991-09-20· cited 117×
• Ex Parte University of South Alabama
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1989-01-27· cited 54×
• Mitchell v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1984-01-10· cited 41×
• Albright v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1973-03-20· cited 31×
• Underwood v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1993-12-30· cited 30×
• Ex Parte Bailey
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1991-02-22· cited 26×
• Ex Parte Mauricio
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1987-12-11· cited 25×
• Howard v. Mitchell
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1986-07-03· cited 25×
• Sasser v. Connery
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1990-04-06· cited 24×
• MacK v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1998-04-03· cited 20×
• Peden v. Ashmore
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1989-11-09· cited 19×
• Bone v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1997-06-20· cited 18×
• Albright v. State
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1973-07-05· cited 18×
• Smith v. Medical Center East
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1991-08-16· cited 15×