Ex Parte McElroy’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently December 1988 · most notably State v. Cobb (1972), State v. Cannon (1979)
29 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 Miles v. State · Rosenberg v. City of Selma · Ex Parte Wright · 26 Ala. App. 74 - Freeland v. State · Nolen v. Jones
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““AFFIDAVIT AND WARRANT Personally appeared before me, A. E. Cooper, Chief of Police Judge of the Recorder’s Court of the City of Demopolis, Alabama, L. C. Johnson who being by me first duly sworn, says on oath that he has probable cause for believing and does believe that within twelve months before the making of this affidavit and within the City of Demopolis, Alabama or within the Police Jurisdiction thereof Robert Elmore Wright did commit the offense indicated below by an “X” mark: Robert Elmore Wright without legal cause or good excuse did go on the premises of U. S. Jones School Grounds after Being warned within Six months prceddin (sic) not to do so By A. A. Knight City Supt of Schools contrary to and in violation of City Ordinance No._of the said City of Demopolis. against the peace and dignity of the State of Alabama. L. C. Johnson Sworn to and subscribed before me this 15 day of Aug., 1967. A. E. Cooper Recorder Chief of Police “Complaint on oath having been made before me that the offence(s) as set forth in the above affidavit (Trespass after Warning) has been committed in the said City of Demopolis or within the Police Jurisdiction thereof, and accusing (Robert Elmore Wright) the person named in said affidavit, you are therefore commanded to arrest him (her) and bring him (her) before me at the term of this said Court next succeeding said arrest. Given under my hand this 15 day of Aug., 1967. A. E. Cooper Recorder Chief of Police CITY WITNESSES: “I have executed th”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The trial on appeal from a judgment rendered by a justice, shall be de novo, and shall be governed in all respects by the rules and regulations prescribed for the trial of appeals from the county court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“In [a] prosecution of this character, . . . the offense charged may be designated by name, or by some other phrase which in common parlance designates it.”
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.