24 Ala. App. 390 - Evans v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1931
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently September 2001
20 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 Moore v. State · Parsons v. State · Hurst v. State · 18 Ala. App. 299 - Savage v. State · Coburn 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It appears from the record that the defendant interposed the plea of autrefois acquit, which is set out in the statement of the case; that ‘no motion, demurrer, replication, or any objection, by any plea or paper,’ was interposed; but the court on its own motion ‘overruled’ the plea, stating that the same was not good, and stating what had been the proceedings in the city court of Bessemer, when the case was before it, as stated in the plea. When a plea is regularly interposed in a case, it is subject to either a demurrer or a motion to strike from the records, and, if neither is interposed, issue must be taken on the plea, and it goes before the jury on the question of fact. The plea in this case was defective, and subject to demurrer ; but it was the right of the pleader to have those defects pointed out, and then to amend his plea. We know of no rule by which the court can, of its own motion, ‘overrule’ a plea on facts within the personal knowledge of the judge, without evidence properly produced before the court. * * * ””
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.