Arant v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
161 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 163 later decisions — most recently September 2013 · most notably 577 So. 2d 474 - Kuenzel v. State (1990), Blue v. State (1944)
161 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 Berger v. United States · Anderson v. State · Cross v. State · Parsons v. State · Parrish 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 163 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Counsel for the state and defendant are allowed a rather wide latitude in drawing their deductions from the evidence. “. . . Such statements are usually valued by the jury at their true worth . . . and not expected to become factors in the formulation of their verdict. . “. . . But, after all, we must not lose sight of the fact that a trial is a legal battle, a combat in a sense,-and not a parlor social affair. ...””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““ * * * to be available for reversal, the court must be persuaded the remark was so grossly improper and highly prejudicial as to have been ineradicable. American Ry. Express Co. v. Reid, 216 Ala. 479 , 113 So. 507 ; Bachelor v. State, 216 Ala. 356 , 113 So. 67 ; Anderson v. State, 209 Ala. 36 , 95 So. 171 .””
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.