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← 236 Ala. 448 - Brothers v. State

Brothers v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1938

Citation profile

81
cited by 81 later decisions
3
states following
January 1997
most recently cited

81 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 81 later decisions — most recently January 1997 · most notably 577 So. 2d 474 - Kuenzel v. State (1990), Nichols v. State (1964)

81 state decisions

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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 Anderson v. State · Parsons v. State · Parrish v. State · Spicer v. State · Howard 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 81 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “It cannot be said such remarks would be out of bounds in any and every connection.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “[C]ounsel may draw any inference which the facts tend to support.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  3. “It has become a maxim of the law that in cases where insanity is relied upon as a defense, `Every act of the party's life is relevant to the issue.'”
    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.