Twitty v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1910
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently May 1969 · most notably 15 Ala. App. 245 - Mathis v. State (1916), Walker v. State (1930)
35 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 Johnson v. State · Pulliam v. State · McQueen v. State · Cole 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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Charge 12, requested by the defendant, should have been given. It did not profess to set out the ingredients of self-defense, but dealt only with the .question as to whether great bodily harm threatened is equal to life threatened, so as to justify the use of force.””
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.