Aaron v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 160 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 162 later decisions — most recently April 2010 · most notably Fletcher v. State (1973), Seals v. State (1968)
2 federal appellate · 160 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 Costello v. United States · Holt v. United States · Lawn v. United States · Avery v. State of Alabama · Albert Twining v. State of New Jersey
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 162 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Section 6 of Article 1 of the Constitution of this state provides, in part, that an accused `shall not be compelled to give evidence against himself.' This provision has been construed as protecting a person from being required against his will from doing any positive act tending to operate as evidence against himself in a criminal case. But it does not violate this rule for another person to do an act against the will of the defendant which relates to his person, and thereby cause to be revealed matter material as evidence against him. (Citation Omitted)”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Hill v. State · Hubbard v. State“"Where a witness testifies as to the general reputation or character of the defendant, the knowledge of the witness as to such reputation or character may be tested on cross-examination by asking him if he had heard of the defendant being charged with other offenses or of specific acts of bad conduct on the part of the defendant." Aaron v. State , 271 Ala. 70 , 83 , 122 So.2d 360 (1960).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“". . . was so affected by disease of the brain when the offense was committed as to render him so insane that he did not know right from wrong with respect to the particular offense charged, or by reason of such mental disease he could not resist doing the wrong; and the crime must have been the product solely of such disease of the mind."”
2 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.