20 Ala. App. 56 - State v. Massey’s Empirical Analysis
1924
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently May 1998 · most notably Dyer v. State (1941), Commonwealth v. Mayberry (1927)
32 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 Mitchell v. State · Fonville v. State · Chatham v. State · Johnson v. State · Tarvers 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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Judge Stone in Mitchell v. State , 60 Ala. 26 , defines 'universal malice' as that 'depravity of the human heart, which determines [italics ours] to take life upon slight or insufficient provocation, without knowing or caring who may be the victim.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“. . . was designed to include those cases also in which death is produced by acts putting the lives of many in jeopardy, under circumstances evincing great depravity and utter recklessness in regard to human life.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Langford v. State“Voluntary drunkenness does not excuse crime, yet its excessiveness may produce such a mental condition as to render the intoxicated person incapable of forming a specific intent.”
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.