30 Ala. App. 425 - Anthony v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently August 1993
20 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 Way v. State · Gilmore v. State · Patterson v. State · Davis v. State · Vernon v. United States
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““State witness, Virgil Sandefer, a City detective, testified, over the objection and exception of defendant, that he, with others, went to the city jail, where Sam Anthony was confined as a prisoner and took his (Anthony’s) shoes off of him and carried them away to the scene of the alleged crime, for the purpose of comparing the shoes with certain tracks. This act of this witness was unlawful, under the law he had no right to take defendant’s shoes off of his feet and carry them away for the purpose stated. Davis v. State, 131 Ala. 10, 16 , 31 So. 569 ; Cooper v. State, 86 Ala. 610 , 6 So. 110 , 4 L.R.A. 766 , 11 Am.St.Rep. 84 . In the Davis case, supra, the Supreme Court said: ‘this testimony was clearly illegal under the principle that the accused cannot be compelled to do or say anything that may tend to incriminate him....’ [ 131 Ala. 10 , 31 So. 571 ], The principle above declared is founded upon the protection guaranteed to him by the Constitution that ‘he shall not be compelled to give evidence against himself.’ Art. 1, § 6, Const. 1901.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The Grand Jury of Said County charge that before the finding of this indictment Alton T. Williams and Jimmie Hugh Smith, whose names to the Grand Jury are otherwise unknown than as stated did, with the intent to steal, break into and enter the Macedonia school building, a school building of the State of Alabama in which merchandise, goods, wares, things of-value, were kept for use, sale or deposit, against the peace and dignity of the State of Alabama.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Smith v. State““Practically all the questions discussed herein above were made grounds for defendant’s motion for a new trial. There was error in overruling and denying said motion.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Paulas
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.