State Supreme Court / Ala.

Beck v. State

Decided March 6, 1981. Alva Hugh Maddox wrote the opinion for the court.

396 So. 2d 645 · Cited 434 times

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Precedents cited

Decisions in our collection this opinion relies on, ordered by how often it cites each. Cases we publish link through; others open the full text.

Wilkins v. Woolf · 208 So. 2d 74
Williams v. Oklahoma · 358 U.S. 576
Pennsylvania Ex Rel. Sullivan v. Ashe · 302 U.S. 51
Coleman v. Alabama · 377 U.S. 129
Gray v. Johnson · 179 So. 221
State v. Richmond · 560 P.2d 41
State v. Simants · 250 N.W.2d 881
Hubbard v. State · 274 So. 2d 298
Butler v. State · 232 So. 2d 631
Liddell v. State · 251 So. 2d 601
Allen v. Walker County · 199 So. 2d 854
San Ann Tobacco Company v. Hamm · 217 So. 2d 803
Swain v. State · 274 So. 2d 305
Tucker v. State Ex Rel. Poole · 165 So. 249
Beck v. State · 365 So. 2d 1006
Springer v. State Ex Rel. Williams · 157 So. 219
Union Bank & Trust Co. v. Blan · 155 So. 612
Mitchell v. Mobile County · 313 So. 2d 172
A. Bertolla & Sons v. State · 24 So. 2d 23
State Ex Rel. Farmer v. Haas · 194 So. 395
Billingsley v. State · 287 Ala. 634
Ex Parte Kyzer · 399 So. 2d 330
Clements v. State · 370 So. 2d 723
Watters v. State · 369 So. 2d 1272
Comer v. City of Mobile · 337 So. 2d 742

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Edwards v. State · 452 So. 2d 487
Jefferson v. State · 473 So. 2d 1100
Cochran v. State · 500 So. 2d 1161
Rutledge v. State · 523 So. 2d 1087
Williams v. State · 461 So. 2d 834
Floyd v. State · 486 So. 2d 1309
Magwood v. State · 548 So. 2d 512
Hays v. State · 518 So. 2d 749
Magwood v. State · 494 So. 2d 124
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Nicks v. State · 521 So. 2d 1018
Ex Parte Giles · 632 So. 2d 577
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