Slater v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
62 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently February 2005 · most notably 501 So. 2d 1136 - City of Dothan v. Holloway (1986), Ex Parte Dison (1984)
62 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 Miles v. State · Butler v. State · 20 Ala. App. 204 - State v. Skinner · Johnson v. State · Thomas 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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“" This court has had occasion to consider the sufficiency of the original affidavit to confer jurisdiction of the offense, and sustain the issuance of a lawful warrant of arrest. "We have held such proceedings void, violative of the bill of rights, for failure to show probable cause on oath ( Johnson v. State, 82 Ala. 29 , 2 So. 466 ; Butler v. State, 130 Ala. 127 , 30 So. 338 ), for failure to sufficiently identify or specify the offense charged ( Miles v. State, 94 Ala. 106 , 11 So. 403 ), and because of insufficiency of a statute to define or specify the acts which are denounced as criminal (response to certified questions from Court of Appeals, in State v. Skinner, 20 Ala.App. 204, 205 , 101 So. 327 ). "... " This want of an affidavit, the initial step in the prosecution, goes to the jurisdiction of the court. The court must take notice ex mero motu. Thomas v. State, 166 Ala. 40 , 52 So. 34 ; Dunklin v. State, 134 Ala. 195 , 32 So. 666 . "A complaint filed by the solicitor in the circuit court on appeal from a conviction in the county court in such case will not suffice to give the circuit court jurisdiction. Miles v. State, supra; Butler v. State, supra. "In cases of indictment held invalid by this court, and due to be quashed, the practice is not to quash the indictment here, but remand the cause to the trial court with directions to quash, so that proper orders may be there made to hold the accused for a new indictment. Dunklin v. State, supra. " But where the initial ”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he warrant must 'designate' the misdemeanor in such manner that the man of ordinary intelligence may know what offense he is called upon to answer.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“We are impelled to hold that a blanket charge of violation of the prohibition law of Alabama as it now exists does not designate any distinct or specific offense by name or as known in common parlance. It is equally applicable to any one of numerous distinct offenses, some misdemeanors, some felonies, each depending on its own state of facts. A charge of violating the law of the road, or the public health laws, would be equally specific. We must, therefore, hold the affidavit void.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ex Parte Dison
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.