20 Ala. App. 463 - Davis v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1925
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently May 2006 · most notably Bowden v. State (1988), 943 So. 2d 789 - Bockman v. WCH, LLC (2006)
41 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 16 Ala. App. 85 - Wallace v. State · Palmer v. State · 16 Ala. App. 61 - Cassemus v. State · 18 Ala. App. 199 - Bryan v. State · Alabama Great Southern R. Co. v. Smith
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We know as a scientific fact that when a child is born there has been an act of sexual intercourse, and as a matter of common knowledge we also know that the period of normal gestation is approximately 270 days.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“was adopted deliberately as a restraint upon the laxity of the common-law practice of permitting trial judges at any stage of a trial , before judgment, to reopen cases for the admission of evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“for the purpose of proving a crime and fixing the time.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.