Pollard v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Lewis v. Ocean Accident & Guarantee Corp. · Matter of Keator v. . Rock Plaster Manufacturing Company · Knapp v. State · 23 Ala. App. 520 - Andrews v. State · 23 Ala. App. 521 - Bufford 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he absence of a motive for committing the crime charged is in the nature of an exculpatory circumstance which a defendant on trial is entitled to establish ... To exclude such proof would place an arbitrary limitation on the accused that would be unjust, in view of the freedom allowed the prosecution in adducing facts and circumstances pointing to his guilt.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the law contents itself with probabilities, and declines to wait for certainty before drawing its conclusions.”
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.