31 Ala. App. 334 - Martin v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2024 · most notably Powell v. Texas (1968), United States v. Tucker (2002)
3 federal appellate · 30 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 30 Ala. App. 12 - Robison v. State · Louis Stix & Co. v. S. Pump & Co. · 27 Ala. App. 212 - Atkins v. State · Turner v. Irwin · Scott v. Lazenby
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Under the plain terms of this statute, a voluntary appearance [in a public place] is presupposed. The rule has been declared, and we think it sound, that an accusation of drunkenness in a designated public place cannot be established by proof that the accused, while in an intoxicated condition, was involuntarily and forcibly carried to that place by the arresting officer.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“manifested a drunken condition by using loud and profane language....”
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.