Alford v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently May 1981
15 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on McCulloch v. Campbell · Smith v. Henline · McClure v. McClure · Tobin v. Jenkins · In re the Probate of the Will of Storer
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Section 4148. No minister of the Gospel or priest of any denomination shall be compelled to testify in relation to any confession made to him in his'professional character, in the course of discipline enjoined by the rules or practice of such denomination. ’ ’ Crawford & Moses’ Digest.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sherman v. State
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.