31 Ala. App. 520 - Flandell v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently March 1979
2 federal appellate · 12 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 Williams v. State · 16 Ala. App. 259 - Brannon v. State · Campbell v. State · Spencer v. State · Weaver 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““§ 437. Vagrancy defined. — The following described persons are vagrants: “(1) Any person who wanders or strolls about in idleness, or lives in idleness, who is able to work, and has no property sufficient for his support. “(2) Any person leading an idle, immoral, or profligate life, who has no property sufficient for his support, and who is able to work, and does not work. “(3) Any able-bodied person having no property sufficient for his support, who loafs, loiters, or idles in any city, town, or village, or upon a public highway, or about a steamboat landing, or a railroad station, or any other public place in this state, or any place where intoxicating liquors are sold, without any regular employment. “(4) Any person trading or bartering stolen property, or who unlawfully sells or barters any sprituous, vinous, or malt or other intoxicating liquors. “(5) Any person who is a common drunkard. “(6) Any person who is a professional gambler. “(7) Any able-bodied person who is found begging. • “(8) Any able-bodied person who shall abandon his wife and children, or either of them, without just cause, leaving her or them without sufficient means of subsistence, or in danger of becoming a public charge. “(9) Any person who is a prostitute. “(10) Any person who is a keeper, proprietor or employee of a house of prostitution. “(11) Any person who is a keeper, proprietor or employee of a gambling house. “(12) Any person who has no property sufficient for his support and who is able to ”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Broughton v. Brewer
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.