Grimes v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently December 2016 · most notably Victor v. State (1939), Try-Me Bottling Co. v. State (1938)
43 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 Yellow-Stone Kit v. State · Loiseau v. State · Johnson v. State · 28 Ala. App. 4 - Grimes 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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"That the prize may go to some one who has paid nothing does not negative the fact that many have paid for their chance. Because some have not been drawn into the gambling phase does not render it any the less a lottery , with whatever of evil it engenders, as to the large public who have paid."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“everybody [could] register, and [could] participate in the drawing by being either in the theater, or on the outside, in position to appear and claim the prize within two minutes.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“How can it be said patrons . . . have paid anything for a chance, if they have a like chance without paying?”
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.