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18 Ala. App. 566 - Lee v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1922

Citation profile

37
cited by 37 later decisions
1
states following
March 1990
most recently cited

37 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently March 1990 · most notably German v. State (1982), Reeder v. State (1923)

37 state decisions

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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 Fonville v. State · Pellum v. State · Harrell 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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “"The same rule of evidence must obtain in prosecutions of this character as in all other criminal prosecutions, and, as insisted, there is no rule of law or presumption that because of the mere presence of the accused at a time and place where crime is being committed he is guilty of the commission of the offense. Such a rule has never been and should never be invoked in any criminal prosecution, for a person ever so innocent may by force of circumstances be present and witness the commission of the most heinous of crimes, and it would be an unsafe rule, unsound in principle, and repugnant to human justice and right, to say that by his mere presence he is presumed to be the perpetrator of or connected with the commission of the offense."”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. 563 So. 2d 39 - Greer v. State
  2. “material fact, which is the opportunity of defendant to commit the offense complained of.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. German v. 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.