Patton v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
90 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 90 later decisions — most recently October 2010 · most notably Maund v. State (1950), 48 Ala. App. 401 - Payne v. State (1972)
90 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 Anderson v. State · Godau v. State · McClain v. State · Lee v. State · Powell 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 90 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'Also in McClain v. State , 182 Ala. 67 , 62 So. 241 , 243 [1913], it was said: " ' "We are not prepared to concede . . . that the sensational language of a newspaper reporter or special correspondent used in 'writing up' such cases . . . may be safely taken as a reflection of general public sentiment; nor that it may be lightly assumed that such statements as those . . . shown are capable of permanently molding and fixing the opinions of the more intelligent classes of the people to the extinction of their sense of fair play, and the suppression of their sober second thought.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Ex Parte Fowler · Campbell v. State““So long as we have newspapers we may expect to have through them the report of crimes, and it is not to be unexpected that, when a homicide is committed * * * the newspapers of the community, answering the public interest, will furnish the defendant with at least some material upon which to base an application similar to the one under discussion.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Ex Parte Fowler · Campbell v. State““The burden is upon the defendant to show to the reasonable satisfaction of the court that an impartial trial and an unbiased verdict cannot reasonably be expected, in order to achieve the right to a change of venue. Godau v. State, 179 Ala. 27 , 60 So. 908 . The mere belief of the defendant or of his witnesses that he cannot receive such a trial is not enough. Lee v. State, Ala., [ 246 Ala. 343 ] 20 So.2d 471 . “The defendant rested his right to a change of venue upon the following facts, as distinguished from mere conclusions: (1) Extraordinary public interest in the case and supposed public indignation against defendant, as evidenced by a posse of citizens who joined in the search for the defendant; (2) his incarceration in an out-of-county jail; (3) publication in The Greensboro Watchman, a local newspaper, of an article in which it is claimed erroneous statements of fact were embraced, having a tendency to inflame the public mind; (4) the presence of several State Highway Patrolmen in and around the courthouse at the trial to aid the local constabulary in maintaining order and in searching persons for weapons who entered the courtroom; (5) presence on the 75-juror venire of nineteen jurors who were residents in and around Moundville, the neighborhood of the crime; and (6) appointment of two out-of-county attorneys who, it is alleged, were not as well acquainted with the personnel of the ve-nire as local counsel might have been. “Upon a careful consideration of the questi”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Elliott v. State
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.