Rush v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently January 1986 · most notably 37 Ala. App. 96 - Holloway v. State (1952), Keith v. State (1950)
25 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 Doss v. State · Spooney v. State · Vernon v. State · Zininam v. State · Huckabee 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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Section 30, Title 30, Code of 1940 provides in effect that the names of the jurors shall be drawn by the judge from the jury box in open court. This court has had occasion to define the meaning of the words ‘open court’ a number of times and it is clear that open court means when the court is open for the transaction of the business of the court, that is ‘the time when the court can properly exercise its functions.’ Ex parte Branch, 63 Ala. 383 ; Zaner v. Thrower, 203 Ala. 650 , 84 So. 820 ; Letcher v. State, 159 Ala. 49 , 48 So. 805 , 17 Ann.Cas. 716. But we think that the expression ‘open court’ means that the court must not only be open for the transaction of business but also means that the court must be sitting openly, so that all persons who conduct themselves in an orderly manner may freely see and hear the proceedings in the court.””
2 later decisions 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.