Fenner v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1929
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently February 2009
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 Mitchell v. State · State v. Clinton · Birmingham Union Railway Co. v. Hale · Ayres v. Duprey · People v. Abbott
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Alibi is regarded by some courts as a special affirmative defense, but the better doctrine seems to be that it is not a defense in the accurate meaning of the term, but a mere fact shown in rebuttal of the State's evidence; and, consequently, the evidence introduced to support it should be left to the jury, uninfluenced by any charge from the court tending to place it upon a different footing from other evidence in the case or calculated to disparage and excite prejudice against it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“where the accused relies upon or attempts to prove an alibi in his defense, the burden of proving the alibi rests upon him.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cooper v. Com.“[i]t is strange that prosecuting attorneys continue to ask for this instruction and trial courts continue to give it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cooper v. Com.
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.