Fikes v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
95 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 117 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2003 · most notably Swain v. State of Alabama (1965), Fikes v. State of Alabama (1957)
95 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 Wolf v. People of the State of Colorado · Chambers v. Florida · Goldman v. United States · Irvine v. People of State of California · Phillips 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 117 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * There is no legal reason for quashing an indictment or venire simply because the jury commission did not put the name of every qualified persnn on the roll or in the jury box, in the absence of fraud (or a denial of constitutional rights). Section 46, Title 30, Code; Bell v. Terry, 213 Ala. 160 , 104 So. 336 ; Wimbush v. State, 237 Ala. 153 (11), 186 So. 145 . The commissioners have a very' delicate task to perform which involves sound judgment and practical discretion. * * * ””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A] magnetic tape recording may be used as evidence when it is of matters otherwise legal, and provided proper safeguards are shown to have been used so as to protect the recording against error or spoliation”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`If legal evidence is given [sufficient to support an indictment], . . . an indictment is not subject to be quashed because there was illegal evidence also given.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McCray v. State · Ex Parte Radford
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.