State v. Childs’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 495 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 499 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably State v. Awan (1986), State v. Rogers (2015)
3 federal appellate · 495 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 Chapman v. State of California · United States v. Wade · Douglas v. Alabama · Hamilton v. Alabama · Henry v. State of Mississippi
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 499 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is a general rule that an appellate court will not consider any error which counsel for a party complaining of the trial court's judgment could have called but did not call to the trial court's attention at a time when such error could have been avoided or corrected by the trial court.”
51 later decisions quote this exact passage“[c]onstitutional rights may be lost as finally as any others by a failure to assert them at the proper time.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage““In the first place, the alibi witnesses of the defendant were not strangers who would not be expected to have any idea of the importance of remembering the events of December 17 and 19 until contacted by defendant’s attorney four months later. Instead, his five witnesses were his mother and stepfather, both of whom lived in the same house with him and three friends, two of whom lived in the same house, and one other who was arrested at about the same time and apparently for one Of the same offenses for which defendant was indicted. All that these friends and relatives needed to know were the dates that the defendant supposedly robbed the markets, and their memories would immediately have been directed to when they saw him on those days. It would be unreasonable to assume, without any proof whatsoever, that for four months after Joe Willie Childs was arrested these particular people, as close as they were to the defendant, had nó idea of the offenses for which he was arrested.””
2 later decisions 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.