Ball v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1991 · most notably Fuller v. State (1959), Coleman v. Alabama (1964)
34 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 Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · Avery v. State of Alabama · Patton v. State of Mississippi · Reedy v. State · Vernon 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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[Objections going to the venire of the petit jury or any member thereof, must be made before entering upon the trial of the case on its merits under the defendant’s plea of not guilty, and a failure to make such objections constitutes a waiver. Peterson v. State, 227 Ala. 361 , 150 So. 156 [1933]. This rule has its exceptions as when the defendant is misled by the false oath and fraud of a venireman, and thereby induced to accept such venireman on the jury. 20 R.C.L. 242, § 27. “It is not permissible for the defendant, who has not been so misled, to participate in the selection of the jury without objections, speculate on winning a favorable verdict, and failing to do so, allow him to raise such questions on a motion for new trial. Simpson v. Golden, 114 Ala. 336 , 21 So. 990 [1897]; Hoskins v. Hight, 95 Ala. 284 , 11 So. 253 [1892]; Barron v. Robinson, et al., 98 Ala. 351 , 13 So. 476 [1893]; Fulwider v. Jacob, 221 Ala. 124 , 127 So. 818 [1930].””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Williams v. State · Fuller 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.