30 Ala. App. 339 - Brown v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently July 2015 · most notably 37 Ala. App. 57 - Huddleston v. State (1953), 659 So. 2d 933 - Hunt v. State (1994)
29 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 McGehee v. State · Saucier v. State · People v. Tilden · Mikkel v. State · 115 Tex. Crim. 201 - Cochran 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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'The rule in our State is that an allegation in an indictment which is but mere surplusage may be disregarded — it is immaterial for any purpose. The exception to this rule — which does not occur in this case — is that if the allegation (constituting surplusage)”
5 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.