24 Ala. App. 47 - Hurst v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1930
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently May 1984
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 Gunter v. State · 18 Ala. App. 277 - Baxley v. State · Alabama Steel & Wire Co. v. Griffin · 20 Ala. App. 565 - Gilbert v. State · McClellan 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.
“If upon the trial of the issue presented by the plea it should appear that defendant killed both Malon Farmer and Dewy Cox, with a formed design as to each, the plea would fail. Per contra, if it should appear that the defendant, while defending himself from an assault by Farmer, without formed design as to Cox, killed him also, there would be but one offense. Defendant could be tried but once for the killing of both.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Where a man kills two men in quick succession, with a formed design as to each man, it constitutes two offenses. But where the killing is pursuant to and is a continuation of the assault and done under the impulse of the same design, it is but one act.”
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.