20 Ala. App. 514 - Robertson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1924
Citation profile
95 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 95 later decisions — most recently February 2012 · most notably Barrett v. Barrett (1977), Ryan v. Ryan (1958)
95 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 Gompers v. Bucks Stove & Range Co. · Ex parte Lange · Samuel Gompers v. Buck's Stove & Range Company · Fisk · People Ex Rel. Tweed v. . Liscomb
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 95 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““While the statute investing this court with original.jurisdiction in habeas corpus is not as clear as it might have been, we are of the opinion that a careful reading of it does not disclose a legislative intent to circumscribe the jurisdiction there conferred. The statute reads that ‘this court shall have authority to issue writs of habeas corpus.’ We do not consider that authority to be limited to such cases ‘as are necessary to give this court general superintendence and control of jurisdiction inferior to it, and in matters over which it has final appellate jurisdiction.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“"It has been held that a proceeding to punish for other than direct contempt is a distinct and independent proceeding, as much so as a new suit, and necessitates the giving of notice of all proceedings."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.