20 Ala. App. 412 - Spelce v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1924
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently January 1978 · most notably Greenwalt v. State (1965), 26 Ala. App. 189 - Calvert v. State (1934)
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 Edwards v. State · Hawes v. State · Smith v. State · Gunter v. State · Maddox 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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It requires no argument to show that the effect upon the mind of the juror upon receiving information of the death of his mother was to render him incapable of that calm and deliberate consideration and reasoning which is due in the investigation of cases of this importance and magnitude. It was unquestionably the duty of the court to discharge the juror under such circumstances.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Greenwalt 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.