21 Ala. App. 114 - Whitaker v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1925
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently December 2011 · most notably 28 Ala. App. 273 - Welch v. State (1938), 494 So. 2d 819 - Williams v. State (1986)
26 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 O'Brien v. State · 17 Ala. App. 550 - Porter v. State · Walker v. State · 16 Ala. App. 34 - Moss v. State · 16 Ala. App. 665 - Bachelor 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“". . . When a nol. pros. is entered before the defendant has been placed in jeopardy, its only effect is to end that particular prosecution, and does not absolve defendant from liability to further prosecution for the same offense . . ."”
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.