31 Ala. App. 187 - Barnes v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently February 1990
23 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 Roan v. State · Waller v. State · Gafford v. State · Russell v. State · Sexton 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is generally held that evidence of information conveyed to the defendant by others, or obtained through his personal observation shortly before the act, is admissible if it is of such a nature as naturally and reasonably to affect his mental poise to an extent that it would render him irresponsible while acting under its influence.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Anthony““The only limitation upon the admissibility of such evidence is that a proper predicate for its admission be laid by the introduction of other evidence tending to show insanity.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Anthony“Any fact which has a causal connection or logical relation to another fact, so as to make the other fact either more or less probable, is competent, or is relevant, to prove it.”
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.