31 Ala. App. 249 - Hacker v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently December 2008
17 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 White 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"As in Hacker v. State , 31 Ala. App. 249 , 250 , 15 So.2d 336 , 337 , cert. denied , 244 Ala. 649 , 15 So.2d 339 , `[W]e are of the opinion if any doubt of the correctness of said ruling prevailed or existed, all such doubt was fully dissipated and rendered innocuous by the straightforward manner in which this child of tender years gave . . . testimony as a witness.'"”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“"`. . . When he got on top of me down there under the bridge he had me under him and he was lying all stretched out on top of me. He took my pants down that I had on and he was on top of me then and all stretched out. I felt something push inside me down between my legs and I felt it four times and it hurt me bad. . . . It felt like something stiff that he was putting in me down there. . . .'"”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“imprisonment in the penitentiary for not less than 10 years.”
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.