Sparks v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• judge disqualified because of prior activity as prosecuting attorney — he attended the preliminary hearing and endorsed the indictment against the defendant

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Ex Parte Rutledge
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1988-02-19· cited 149×
• Newsome v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1990-10-19· cited 123×
• Siebert v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1989-10-27· cited 105×
• Oryang v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1993-09-30· cited 88×
• Thompson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1991-01-18· cited 86×
• Callahan v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1989-04-14· cited 73×
• Peoples v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1986-05-27· cited 59×
• Ex Parte Crawford
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1996-05-31· cited 42×
• Lamar v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1991-02-01· cited 40×
• Minshew v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1988-11-23· cited 39×
• Bates v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1989-05-12· cited 19×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1994-03-25· cited 17×
• Lawson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1985-03-26· cited 16×
• Walters v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1991-03-29· cited 16×
• Holliday v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1999-07-09· cited 16×
• Owens v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1986-02-12· cited 15×
• Baldwin v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1988-10-28· cited 11×
• England v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1992-02-28· cited 10×
• Forehand v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1993-03-05· cited 8×
• Black v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1991-09-20· cited 7×

Cites

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

• Dobbert v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1977-06-17· cited 1,651×
• Murphy v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1975-06-16· cited 1,568×
• Fletcher v. State
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1973-05-10· cited 156×
• Anderson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1978-10-03· cited 144×
• Phelps v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1983-03-29· cited 109×
• Gwin v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1982-03-23· cited 95×
• Ex Parte Magwood
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1983-01-07· cited 88×
• Ex Parte Gwin
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1983-01-07· cited 81×
• McCullough v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1978-04-04· cited 65×
• Hopkins v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1983-02-01· cited 61×
• Magwood v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1982-05-18· cited 51×
• Daniels v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1982-06-29· cited 44×
• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1954-02-25· cited 37×
• Ex Parte Johnson
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1983-04-29· cited 26×
• Donley v. City of Mountain Brook
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1982-05-18· cited 21×
• Dunaway v. State
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1973-05-03· cited 20×
• Gilbert v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1981-06-30· cited 11×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1982-04-20· cited 10×
• Baker v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1974-06-25· cited 10×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1982-10-12· cited 8×