27 Ala. App. 277 - Barnett v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently October 1979
20 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 17 Ala. App. 82 - Cannon v. State · 25 Ala. App. 179 - Curlette v. State · Merrill v. Sheffield Co. · Hyde v. State · Loveman, Joseph & Loeb v. Himrod
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Manslaughter in the first degree as defined at common law and under statutes declaratory thereof consists in the unlawful killing of a human being without malice either expressed or implied. As applied to cases where persons are killed by automobiles, we have said that: ‘If there is evidence tending to show that the blow struck by the automobile being driven by defendant was intentional, or the automobile was being so driven as to evidence a wanton and reckless disregard of human life at the time and place and under the circumstances,’ this would be voluntary manslaughter. Curlette v. State, 25 Ala.App. 179 , 142 So. 775, 776 .””
1 later decision 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.