24 Ala. App. 410 - Brewer v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1931
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently January 1986
15 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 Andrews v. State · 20 Ala. App. 412 - Spelce v. State · 23 Ala. App. 401 - Helums v. State · Beason v. State · Jackson 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The statute'fixes the reason for a discharge of the jury and of necessity leaves it to the opinion or discretion of the judge or court to determine whether or not the reason as fixed by law really exists.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mitchell 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.