27 Ala. App. 551 - Davis v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently March 1992
15 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 Cobb v. Malone · 25 Ala. App. 457 - Ballard v. State · 21 Ala. App. 266 - McGrew v. State · 16 Ala. App. 451 - Wallace v. State · 22 Ala. App. 67 - Hargrove 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"It is true that no witness testified to seeing the defendant take a drink of whisky or any narcotic drugs, but there is testimony for the State tending to prove that at the time of the accident, which fixed the time of the prosecution, the defendant was under the influence of whisky; and the inferences to be drawn from that fact are: He was driving the automobile while in that condition.. . ." (Emphasis supplied.) 27 Ala. App. at 553 , 176 So. at 381 .”
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.