Allen v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1909
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently April 1974 · most notably Fikes v. State (1955), 52 Ala. App. 685 - State Ex Rel. Baxley v. Strawbridge (1974)
27 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 Crawford v. State · Sparrenberger v. State · Kenyon v. . the People · Wilson v. State · State v. Timmens
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It was unnecessary that the corroborating evidence should be as to all the material elements of the offense, or that it should tend to convict the defendant of the commission of the offense, as is required in the case of convictions of felonies on the testimony of accomplices.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Whatley v. State““When it appears' witnesses were examined by the grand jury, or the jury had before them legal documentary evidence, no inquiry into the sufficiency of the evidence is indulged.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ex Parte State
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.