Seals v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently August 1976
18 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 Noles v. State · Alabama Baptist Hospital Board v. Carter · Gaines v. State · Miles v. State · Scharfenburg v. Town of New Decatur
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the indictment must state the facts constituting the offense in ordinary and concise language, without prolixity or repetition, in such a manner as to enable a person of common understanding to know what is intended, and with that degree of certainty which will enable the court, on conviction, to pronounce the proper judgment * * *.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“in an indictment for the larceny of any animal, or for any other public offense committed in reference to any animal , it is sufficient to describe the animal by such name as, in common understanding, embraces it, without designating its sex.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The term 'Cattle' in its 'usual acceptation in common language' (Code 1940, Tit. 15, Sec. 233), in this jurisdiction embraces only animals of the cow kind.”
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.