Yates v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2024 · most notably Thigpen v. State (1977), Erlinger v. United States (2024)
46 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 29 Ala. App. 349 - Wilkins v. State · 29 Ala. App. 399 - Robertson v. State · 18 Ala. App. 62 - Lyles v. State · 22 Ala. App. 300 - Mitchell v. State · Johnson 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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“does not enlarge the maximum or minimum punishment as fixed by law but enjoins on the trial judge within the limits prescribed as to each offense, a duty to be proportionately severe in exercising his discretion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[i]t is then discretionary with the trial judge whether to impose additional punishment”
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.