James v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1911
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently June 1981
15 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 Tannehill v. State · Thomas 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If the negro was taken out of court, there would not be much left.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““It is the duty of the court .to see that the defendant is tried according to the law and the evidence, free from any appeal to prejudice or other improper motive, /and this duty is emphasized when a. colored man is placed upon trial before a jury of white men.” James v. State. 170 Ala. 72 , 54 South. 494 .”
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.