Free v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that the privilege is unavailable where a criminal defendant raises an insanity defense
• waiver of attorney-client privilege by calling attorney to testify as to communications between him and client
• separate convictions are valid where each individual discharge of a weapon was directed at a different victim, but not where there were multiple victims of a single discharge
• \one cannot recklessly attempt [i.e. intend but fail] to commit murder\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

50 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Ex Parte United Service Stations, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1993-09-24· cited 386×
• Kuenzel v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1990-06-29· cited 336×
• Jackson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2000-03-31· cited 91×
• Oryang v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1993-09-30· cited 88×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2001-06-29· cited 78×
• State v. Earp
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1990-04-10· cited 74×
• State v. Casey
  Utah Supreme Court· 2003-12-05· cited 64×
• Brooks v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2007-03-02· cited 63×
• Davis v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1998-05-29· cited 61×
• Minor v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1999-10-29· cited 54×
• Minshew v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1991-10-25· cited 43×
• McKinney v. State
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1987-06-26· cited 42×
• Brown v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1995-01-13· cited 29×
• Hutcherson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1997-10-17· cited 29×
• Free v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1986-09-09· cited 29×
• Long v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1995-05-05· cited 24×
• Marks v. Tenbrunsel
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 2005-04-22· cited 23×
• Thompson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1984-10-09· cited 22×
• Martin v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1985-11-12· cited 21×
• Stennet v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1990-04-27· cited 19×

Cites

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

• Estelle v. Smith
  Supreme Court· 1981-05-18· cited 2,053×
• Ex Parte Womack
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1983-07-08· cited 205×
• Ex Parte Washington
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1984-03-09· cited 98×
• Tice v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1980-05-06· cited 80×
• Moore v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1982-04-20· cited 73×
• Ex Parte Tice
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1980-08-15· cited 70×
• Hobbs v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1981-05-26· cited 57×
• Magwood v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1982-05-18· cited 51×
• Palmer v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1981-04-21· cited 50×
• Starr v. Starr
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1974-09-12· cited 47×
• Chaney v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1982-07-27· cited 43×
• Bills v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1973-04-03· cited 40×
• Womack v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1983-02-01· cited 39×
• Shewey v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1972-10-03· cited 33×
• Russell v. State
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1918-04-18· cited 27×
• Burks v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1977-12-20· cited 25×
• Ex Parte Palmer
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1981-07-17· cited 24×
• Clements v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1980-08-19· cited 22×
• Coleman v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1979-08-21· cited 20×
• Ex Parte Day
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1979-11-09· cited 20×