15 Ala. App. 245 - Mathis v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently September 2017 · most notably 31 Ala. App. 21 - Wilson v. State (1942), 32 Ala. App. 644 - Gettings v. State (1947)
46 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 Ford v. State · Burton v. State · Tesney v. State · Gibson v. State · McKee 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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The threats of the appellant — as testified by several witnesses — that he was going to kill one of the Daniels, were not improperly admitted as being too indefinite. Whether these threats, when taken in connection with the other evidence, had reference to the deceased, was a question for the jury.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jordan v. State“This would be invasive of the province of the jury and a matter of which they would be quite as competent to judge as the witness, having been given a description of the wound.”
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.