15 Ala. App. 311 - Harvey v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently March 1985
21 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 Cross v. State · Johnson v. State · Tidwell v. State · Fonville v. State · Childress v. State
Most-quoted passages
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““Counsel argue at some length that the deceased was a sickly, delicate woman, and that the state failed to show that the blow inflicted by defendant was the cause of her death. The state’s testimony, as given by Mamie Zeigler, an eyewitness, was to the effect that defendant struck deceased over the head with a piece of green stovewood; that immediately deceased sank to the ground and presently stretched out unconscious, remaining so for some time. This was about 1 o’clock p. m., and the deceased died the following day at about 7 a. m. While it would appear that the blow on the head was the sole efficient cause of death, it need not have been; even if it was only a partial cause or contributing factor that accelerated her death, defendant would, in the eyes of the law, have been none the less guilty.””
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.