Sanders v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently October 1986 · most notably Higginbotham v. State (1955), Woodard v. State (1950)
47 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 Arant v. State · George v. State · Birmingham Ry. Light & Power Co. v. Moore · City of Dothan v. Hardy · Pippin 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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * If a jury should agree in advance that their verdict should he the result or quotient of a division by twelve of the sum total of all the jurors’ separate assessment, a verdict brought about by such an agreement, ought to be set aside. * * *” ( 113 Ala. 620, 625 , 21 So. 328 .)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““It has been held that where there are shown figures used by the jury in its deliberations, fairly inferring that the verdict was a quotient, the court will so hold, and unless the contrary is shown, will also hold the verdict was the result of a previous agreement.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"The rule is, however, that in order to render a verdict objectionable and subject to vacation on the ground that it was a quotient verdict, it devolves upon the assailant of the verdict to show by competent evidence that the jury adopted this plan in arriving at a verdict, and that they agreed in advance to be bound by the result of such proceeding. The vitiating fact is the agreement in advance to abide by the result. Birmingham R., Light Power Co. v. Moore , 148 Ala. 115 , 42 So. 1024 ; Bank of Tallassee v. Elmore Fertilizer Co. , 16 Ala. App. 465 , 78 So. 648 ; Henderson Land Lumber Co. v. Brown , 16 Ala. App. 453 , 78 So. 716 ."”
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.