Rowlan v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently February 1977 · most notably Bachelor v. State (1927), Birmingham & A. Ry. Co. v. Campbell (1919)
29 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 Maddox v. State · Rector v. State · Bessierre v. Ala. City G. & A. R. R. · Mayberry v. State · Sweatt 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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Silence in the face of pertinent accusation of crime by the party accused partakes of the nature of a confession, and is admissible as a circumstance to be considered by the jury as tending to show guilt; hut, to he admissible, it must he shown that the accused heard and understood the charge against him under circumstances calling on him for a denial, and that he was silent.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Where a fact cannot be reproduced and made apparent to the jury, a witness may describe the fact according to the effect produced on his mind.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.