State v. Plaspohl’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently April 1998
3 federal appellate · 7 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 State v. Phelps · Cain v. State · 27 Ala. App. 292 - Williams v. State · 27 Ala. App. 298 - Broxton v. State · McVey v. Brendel
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘[T]his doctrine has no place in criminal law, and it can not in any degree purge an act which otherwise constitutes a public offense of its criminal character. Accordingly the contributory negligence of a person injured or killed by the criminal negligence of another does not relieve the latter from criminal responsibility....’ [quoting22 C.J.S. Criminal Law § 52, pp. 116-117] Reckless homicide is a crime committed against the state. Therefore, contrary to the rule in civil cases, the fact that the deceased victim was ‘an active participant in the unlawful act which resulted in his death,’ as stated in instruction 11, does not bar an action against another for the wrong which he has committed against the peace and dignity of the state.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Drossos 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.