31 Ala. App. 91 - Lee v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
91 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 93 later decisions — most recently April 2018 · most notably Mason v. State (1953), Knight v. State (1962)
91 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 Hopt v. People of the Territory of Utah · Lewis v. United States · Johnson v. State · 29 Ala. App. 349 - Wilkins v. State · Jackson 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 93 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The court found defendant guilty by written Order dated June 17, 1981, without the defendant's and counsel's presence, and said Order was filed in the Office of the Circuit Clerk of Montgomery County, Alabama. "The offer of the court for finding of guilt in open court in the presence of the defendant and his counsel, if jurisdiction exists 1 , was refused by defendant's counsel."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Davis v. State“'The public has an interest in every case involving the life or liberty of a citizen'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rice v. Wood Rice
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.