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← 262 Ala. 414 - McCall v. State

McCall v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1955

Citation profile

52
cited by 52 later decisions
1
states following
September 1999
most recently cited

50 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently September 1999 · most notably Young v. State (1969), Aaron v. State (1961)

50 state decisions

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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 Phillips v. State · Desilvey v. State · Oliver v. State · Kabase v. State · Taylor 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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “"It is well settled in this state that the corpus delicti is a fact which may be proved by circumstantial evidence. If there is a reasonable inference deducible from the evidence of its existence, the court must submit the question of the sufficiency and weight of the evidence *Page 792 tending to support that inference to the jury. . . ." (Citations omitted.)”
    3 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.