State v. Esdale’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently November 2012
13 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 Spooney v. State · Bankson v. Accident & Casualty Co. · State v. Crosby · Ex Parte Wright · Cain 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The statute making provision for ‘probation and suspension of * * * sentence’, Code of 1940, Tit. 42, § 19 et seq., is a part and parcel of our law, relating to persons convicted of crime and as the quoted title indicates is to ameliorate the harshness of the law’s judgment and give the convict a chance to show that he or she is a fit subject and may be rehabilitated and become an acceptable citizen. These benefits are not the subject of bargain and sale to be conditioned on the payment of costs and fees assessed as an incident to the prosecution and trial and to condition these benefits on the payment of such costs and fees violate the letter and spirit of § 13 of the Constitution of 1901 which provides that ‘justice shall be administered without sale, denial or delay.’ Mickle v. State [Ala.], 21 So. 66 ; Ex parte Wright, 226 Ala. 206 , 146 So. 533 . * * * ””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.