6 canonical passages across 5 cases, quoted by 50 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side — they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from Thomas v. State.
| # | Case | Flag | Canonical passage | Citers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Thomas v. State Anchor | green | “the intervening time, if any, between the killing and robbery was part of a continuous chain of events.” | 15 |
| 2 | Kuenzel v. State | green | “a capital punishment scheme, under which the same felony may form the basis of an essential element of the crime and an aggravating circumstance for consideration by the jury in recommending a sentence, does not constitute a denial of the guarantee against double jeopardy.” | 11 |
| 3 | Thomas v. State | green | “would be tantamount to granting to would-be robbers a license to kill their victims prior to robbing them in the hope of avoiding prosecution under the capital felony statute.” | 11 |
| 4 | McCollum v. State | green | “a verdict of conviction will not be set aside on the ground of insufficiency of the evidence, unless, allowing all reasonable presumptions for its correctness, the preponderance of the evidence against the verdict is so decided as to clearly convince this court that it was wrong…” | 9 |
| 5 | King v. State | green | “in the context of prescribing multiple punishments for the same offense, the united states supreme court has stated that” | 2 |
| 6 | Davis v. State | green | “as the alabama supreme court held in cobern v. state, 273 ala. 547 , 142 so.2d 869 (1962), "the fact that the victim was dead at the time the property was taken would not militate against a finding of robbery if the intervening time between the murder and the taking formed a con…” | 2 |
A red or yellow flag on a member means the underlying case has negative treatment — for those, check the case page before relying on the passage.