Vaughn v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
68 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently December 2009 · most notably Blue v. State (1944), Fuller v. State (1959)
68 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 17 Ala. App. 674 - Dennison v. State · Jones v. State · Birmingham Baptist Hospital, Inc. v. Blackwell · McClurkin v. McClurkin · 27 Ala. App. 64 - Dixon 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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The coroner testified that the head of deceased was crushed and the skull fractured, and investigator Parrish at first thought the wound in her back was a stab wound, but reached the conclusion it was a pistol shot wound.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Pace v. State“The purpose of the rule is for identification and notice to defendant, and if those purposes are met no substantial injury to defendant results.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“by striking her with a blunt instrument, a more particular description of which is unknown to the grand jury”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Pace 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.