Deeb v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently April 1999 · most notably 65 So. 2d 77 - North v. State (1952), 365 So. 2d 381 - Goode v. State (1978)
2 federal appellate · 50 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 Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · State Ex Rel. Deeb v. Fabisinski · Lewis v. State · Higginbotham v. State · Phillips v. State
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Counsel for the defendant below argues that no reason for the introduction of the clothes in evidence was given by the State, although it was specifically called to the attention of the court that no reason was given nor any purpose stated for the offer, and that the only reason could be that same were offered and displayed at length to prejudice the jury against the defendant. "Proper practice required the State, before offering the clothes in evidence, to show to the court that specific items of clothes worn by the deceased at the time of the homicide were appropriate to illustrate or corroborate the testimony being then given by a witness, * * *."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“In the discharge of his official duties to prosecute on behalf of the State all criminal causes in the circuit court, the state attorney speaks and acts for the State; and in doing so, the law contemplates that the prosecution shall be conducted by due course of law, to the end that in a fair trial the charge against the accused may be proven in the manner required by law, and not otherwise.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a mandatory organic rule of procedure in all criminal prosecutions”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.