Gilliland v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
59 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently July 1993 · most notably 362 So. 2d 1296 - Anderson v. State (1978), 368 So. 2d 554 - Sprinkle v. State (1978)
59 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 Nichols v. State · Miller v. State · Aaron v. State · 28 Ala. App. 273 - Welch v. State · McPhearson 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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Our statute provides that this Court's review of the trial court ruling is to be de novo, without any presumption in favor of that ruling. Title 15, § 267, supra. However, the burden was on the defendant to show to the trial court that a fair trial could not be expected. Welch v. State , 28 Ala. App. 273 , 183 So. 879 (1938). Let us proceed to examine the matter as if in the shoes of the trial judge. "The policy of our change of venue statute balances the inconvenience and administrative inefficiency of a change with the knowledge that certain crimes so arouse the public in a particular locality that a fair trial there is impossible. A study of the cases reveals that these crimes are invariably of a notorious or spectacular nature, involving violence to the person; specifically, murder and rape. . . ."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The undercover agent in this case was not an accomplice of the defendant: Brown v. State, 44 Ala.App. 135 , 203 So.2d 700 (1967). He could not be indicted and convicted for the crime, either as principal or accessory. Miller v. State, 290 Ala. 248 , 275 So.2d 675 (1973).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“hardly indicated a timid, law abiding soul forced into crime by the overwhelming pressures of cruel and tricky law enforcement agents.”
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.