Smith v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• defendant's functional illiteracy goes to weight and credibility of confession, not its admissibility
• life without possibility of parole not unduly harsh

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

9 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Gaddy v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1995-05-26· cited 96×
• Thornton v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1990-05-25· cited 31×
• Powell v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1993-03-26· cited 20×
• Cleckler v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1990-06-29· cited 13×
• Wedgeworth v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1992-09-18· cited 11×
• Jones v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1990-11-16· cited 9×
• Herring v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1990-03-16· cited 7×
• Frazier v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1995-02-10· cited 4×
• Hannah v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1993-04-16· cited 2×

Cites

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

• Solem v. Helm
  Supreme Court· 1983-06-28· cited 4,242×
• Fletcher v. State
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1973-05-10· cited 156×
• Elrod v. State
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1967-09-14· cited 69×
• Wallace v. State
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1973-04-05· cited 66×
• Boulden v. State
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1965-09-30· cited 64×
• Hobbs v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1981-05-26· cited 57×
• United States v. Johnny Lamar Frazier
  Fifth Circuit· 1970-12-02· cited 55×
• Arnold v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1977-04-19· cited 47×
• Harlin Phillip Seritt, Jr. v. State of Alabama
  Eleventh Circuit· 1984-05-03· cited 43×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1984-06-12· cited 38×
• McCall v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1986-05-27· cited 32×
• Weaver v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1981-06-30· cited 32×
• Montgomery v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1983-11-29· cited 30×
• Cliff v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1987-07-28· cited 28×
• Twymon v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1978-04-18· cited 27×
• Wilbourn v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1984-10-09· cited 21×
• Brooks v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1984-07-31· cited 21×
• Chandler v. State
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1968-09-12· cited 16×
• Romine v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1980-03-18· cited 15×
• Sasser v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1986-11-21· cited 15×