23 Ala. App. 72 - Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1929
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently March 1990
9 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 Bates v. State · Washington v. State · Ex parte Simmons · Ex parte McKivett · Dentler 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Illegality, as distinguished from mere irregularity, rendering the proceeding voidable only, not absolutely void, is a usurpation of excess of jurisdiction apparent on the face of the proceeding, and will entitle a party restrained of his liberty to a writ of habeas corpus and to a discharge from imprisonment. Ex parte McKivett, 55 Ala. 236 ; Ex parte Simmons, 62 Ala. 416 ; Ex parte Brown, 102 Ala. 179 , 15 So. 602 . “While the judge acted without authority, the jurisdiction of the court was not exceeded, and the act of the judge is reviewable on appeal, but not on habeas corpus. Washington v. State, 125 Ala. 40 , 28 So. 78 . The judgment is affirmed.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Luquire v. State
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.