Mathis v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
87 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 87 later decisions — most recently September 1992 · most notably 587 So. 2d 1072 - Parker v. State (1991), Baldwin v. State (1968)
87 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Escobedo v. Illinois · Johnson v. State of New Jersey · Duncan v. State · 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 87 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Publicity by the press, radio and television does not necessarily constitute ground for a change of venue. See: Denton v. State , 263 Ala. 311 , 314-315 , 82 So.2d 406 ; Campbell v. State , 257 Ala. 322 , 324-325 , 58 So.2d 623 ; Littlefield v. State , 36 Ala. App. 507 , 510 , 63 So.2d 565 , cert. den., 258 Ala. 532 , 63 So.2d 573 . Whether a motion for a change of venue should be granted is a matter addressed to the sound discretion of the trial court. See: Cobern v. State , 273 Ala. 547 , 551 , 142 So.2d 869 ; Collins v. State , 234 Ala. 197 , 199 , 174 So. 296 ; Littlefield v. State, supra. From a consideration of the evidence taken on the hearing of the motion, we cannot say that the trial court abused its discretion in denying the motion."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“'Also in McClain v. State , 182 Ala. 67 , 62 So. 241 , 243 [1913], it was said: " ' "We are not prepared to concede . . . that the sensational language of a newspaper reporter or special correspondent used in 'writing up' such cases . . . may be safely taken as a reflection of general public sentiment; nor that it may be lightly assumed that such statements as those . . . shown are capable of permanently molding and fixing the opinions of the more intelligent classes of the people to the extinction of their sense of fair play, and the suppression of their sober second thought.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““There is nothing in the record indicating that Mathis, when he made the statements, either had a lawyer who was not permitted to be present, or requested a lawyer, or requested to see anyone.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Goolsby 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.