24 Ala. App. 300 - Thompson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1931
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently January 1985
23 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 21 Ala. App. 289 - Douglass v. State · Thomas v. State · 22 Ala. App. 143 - Culbreath v. State · 16 Ala. App. 496 - Ray v. State · 20 Ala. App. 296 - Burt 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is settled law in this State that the force or fear must precede or be concomitant with the taking; it cannot follow the taking, and no force or fear, however severe, which follows the taking, can make the offense committed robbery. It seems useless to argue this proposition further.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The testimony of the Japanese conclusively shows that the force relied upon by the State to substantiate the charge of robbery was applied after the money was taken. Under no theory of the law can this be robbery. . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“held me while the small man ran out of the door.”
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.