Knight v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• describing dictum as “expressfing] an opinion based on facts not shown by the record”
• describing dictum as `express[ing] an opinion based on facts not shown by the record'

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Commonwealth v. Story
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-01-26· cited 730×
• Hooks v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1987-07-28· cited 174×
• Fletcher v. State
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1973-05-10· cited 156×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1968-03-14· cited 105×
• Ex Parte Crymes
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1993-10-29· cited 88×
• Town of Chino Valley v. City of Prescott
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1981-11-30· cited 80×
• Christian v. State
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1977-09-30· cited 69×
• Crumpton v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1981-05-26· cited 56×
• Bighames v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1983-11-01· cited 56×
• Baldwin v. State
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1968-08-29· cited 55×
• Ellis v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1990-05-11· cited 50×
• Whisenhant v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1982-11-23· cited 45×
• Cunningham v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1982-10-12· cited 44×
• Jacobs v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1977-07-26· cited 44×
• Chunn v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1976-11-23· cited 42×
• Pierce v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1973-09-28· cited 40×
• Pope v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1970-12-21· cited 38×
• Thigpen v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1973-05-15· cited 38×
• Bogan v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1988-04-12· cited 37×
• Rowe v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1968-06-19· cited 37×

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Nichols v. State
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1958-01-23· cited 113×
• Byrd v. State
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1952-01-03· cited 43×
• Neal v. State
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1952-06-26· cited 33×
• Lakey v. State
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1952-08-27· cited 29×
• Walker v. State
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1959-06-25· cited 22×
• Grand Bay Land Co. v. Simpson
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1919-05-01· cited 20×
• Mobile Infirmary v. Eberlein
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1960-03-17· cited 18×
• Chaney v. State
  Alabama Court of Appeals· 1952-01-15· cited 14×