Orr v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably Watson v. State (1980), 402 So. 2d 1081 - Crumpton v. State (1981)
2 federal appellate · 56 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 19 Ala. App. 113 - Gidley v. State · Bickham Motors, Inc. v. Bickham · McMurtrey 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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the case shall stand for [re]submission on briefs, and likewise oral argument, if so desired, as provided by Rule 39 of the Revised Rules of Supreme Court of Alabama [Code 1940, Tit. 7 Appendix] * * *.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lang v. State
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.