25 Ala. App. 118 - Henson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1932
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently May 1990
24 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 Southern Express Co. v. Whittle · Harbin v. State · Sheppard v. Dowling · 18 Ala. App. 62 - Lyles v. State · 23 Ala. App. 398 - Gill v. Holdridge
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t would therefore seem to be inconceivable that the Legislature intended the prohibition laws to apply to the possession of a teaspoonful of whisky when that quantity could not in any manner affect the morals, health, or well-being of any person or persons.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Harbison v. State“upheld as police regulations affecting the morals, health, and well-being of the citizen,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Harbison 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.