29 Ala. App. 395 - Martin v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently October 2009 · most notably 612 So. 2d 536 - Ex Parte Hart (1992), 612 So. 2d 520 - Hart v. State (1992)
30 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 Alabama Power Co. v. Hall · Buntin v. City of Danville · Meadows v. State · 16 Ala. App. 418 - Driver v. Pate · Kansas City M. & B. R. R. v. Phillips
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Nothing seems better settled than that it is the duty of the court to look after the form and substance of the verdict of the jury, so as to prevent an unintelligible or insufficient verdict from passing into the records of the court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Conway 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.