30 Ala. App. 590 - Alford v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently April 1986
19 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 Gunter v. State · Ex Parte Tanner · 30 Ala. App. 89 - Emerson v. State · 27 Ala. App. 549 - Swindle v. State · Bates 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Moreover, as to the contention that jeopardy prevailed as to a second trial of the higher degrees of homicide (murder), it occurs to us that, regardless of the soundness of our position above (which we do not doubt), no possible prejudice resulted to the defendant on this score in view of the verdict of manslaughter returned in the second trial. He was, by this second conviction, acquitted of the higher charge anyway, thereby rendering innocuous the action (whether meritorious or not) of the court in striking his plea of autrefois acquit of murder in the first and second degrees."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““(2) The trial court, here, acted, with reference to this first attempted verdict, in the only manner possible' and as the decisions of our Supreme Court have dictated, i. e., refused to receive the verdict and directed the jury to return a proper one in compliance with his instructions . . . This the trial court did, is what he should have done, and all he could do. There is nothing to the point of jeopardy.” (p. 592.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Christensen v. State““We the jury find the defendant guilty of manslaughter in the first degree and recommend the mercy of the court.” (p. 591.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Christensen 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.