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← 240 Ala. 531 - Peters v. State

Peters v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1941

Citation profile

46
cited by 46 later decisions
1
states following
May 1985
most recently cited

46 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently May 1985 · most notably 471 So. 2d 485 - Faircloth v. State (1984), 471 So. 2d 493 - Ex Parte Faircloth (1985)

46 state decisions

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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 Jones v. State · Thomas Queenan v. Territory of Oklahoma · Parrish v. State · Rollings v. State · Bachelor 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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “she was an eye witness to a part of the difficulty between defendant and the Whitehursts.”
    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.