Tanner v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently December 2013 · most notably 363 So. 2d 1020 - Thomas v. State (1978), 468 So. 2d 99 - Ex Parte Williams (1985)
51 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 22 Ala. App. 6 - Fuller v. State · 22 Ala. App. 183 - James v. State · Cooper v. State · Hollenquest v. State · 28 Ala. App. 466 - Carr 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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A conviction may be had on evidence which is entirely circumstantial, so long as that evidence is so strong and cogent as to show defendant's guilt to a moral certainty.”
8 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.