22 Ala. App. 115 - St. John v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1927
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently February 1977
15 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 20 Ala. App. 367 - Dickey v. State · 19 Ala. App. 664 - Young v. State · 106 Tex. Crim. 72 - Richardson 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In order to secure a conviction under this statute (the marital relation being admitted), the state must offer proof, under the required rules, that is to say, sufficient to show beyond a reasonable doubt and to a moral certainty (1) that the husband did, without just cause, desert his wife, or, without just cause, did willfully neglect or refuse or fail to provide for her support and maintenance; (2) that said wife was then and there in destitute or necessitous circumstances.” 22 Ala.App. at page 116 , 113 So. at page 323 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““ * * * the word ‘willful’ is the synonym of ‘intentional’, or ‘designed,’ pursuant to intention or design, without just (lawful) cause.””
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.