Fowler v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently December 2009 · most notably Dunaway v. State (1973), 51 Ala. App. 613 - Whitehurst v. State (1973)
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 Vaughn v. State · Cranford v. National Surety Corporation · Hines v. State · Melton v. State · Mayfield 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“was enacted to remedy the situation where there was a defect in the oath and no objection thereto was made in the trial court”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“There is a difference in a situation where there is a defect in the oath and [a situation where there is] no oath at all.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“if the jury or any member thereof was not sworn, it was not the verdict of a jury.”
1 later decision 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.