James v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently July 2001 · most notably Bolin v. State (1966), Judge v. State (1976)
2 federal appellate · 38 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 Strader v. State · Hazlett v. State · Thomas v. State · 24 Ala. App. 237 - Robertson v. State · Baker 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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"This does not mean, however, that the trial judge must instruct the jury on the said lesser offense in every indictment for robbery. The holding of this Court is that the trial judge shall so instruct the jury if there is factual evidence which would support a conviction for the lesser included offense."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bolin v. State““(O)ur robbery statute is intended to be applied in an alternative fashion, that is, a taking of goods either by violence or by putting the person in fear.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rockett 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.