McLosky v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently December 1990 · most notably 40 Ala. App. 317 - Howard v. City of Bessemer (1959), 20 Ala. App. 67 - Ford v. State (1924)
55 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 Alford v. State ex rel. Attorney General · Lee v. State · 19 Ala. App. 178 - Hall v. State · South & North Alabama Railroad v. Pilgreen · Hardee v. Abraham
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he recitals of the appeal bond suffice to show the trial and conviction of the defendant in the county court, and his appeal from a conviction to the circuit court, thereby giving to the latter court jurisdiction of the cause”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ex Parte Hood
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.