Alexander v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
May 1996
most recently cited
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Brewer v. State · McCall v. State · Waddle v. State · Murphy v. State · State v. Ragsdale
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It was not a legal verdict in that the jury undertook to do that which it had no right to do, viz. to suspend the sentence. The trial judge should have called their attention to the fact that they could not suspend a sentence and to retire and consider further of their verdict. The verdict being illegal the trial court could pronounce no judgment upon it. * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Strunk 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.