20 Ala. App. 406 - Bembo v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1924
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently November 1977
7 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 Ward v. State · Kelly v. State · Brantley 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The prosecutrix testified that the defendant was the father of the bastard child, and that he had intercourse with her in Covington County before the birth of the child. The statement that the defendant was the father of the child was sufficient, if believed by the jury, to show the acts of intercourse referred to occurred within the period of gestation.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Boatwright 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.