32 Ala. App. 574 - Nicholas v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1990
20 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 Chandler v. Whatley · Turner v. Town of Lineville · Englehardt v. Yung's Heirs · Worthington v. City of Jasper · Boyd 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"`Wade Creech ..., on being sworn, doth depose and say that he has probable cause for believing and does believe that within the past 6 months ____within the limits of the City of Mobile, Alabama, assaulted and beat George Portier, against the peace and dignity of the State of Alabama, and prays for a warrant for the arrest of the said Allen E. Nicholas. '" (Emphasis added.)”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Ex Parte Dison · Champion v. State“"`Where a defendant does not, before a justice, or in this case before a recorder, raise any objection to the sufficiency of the warrant or affidavit, he will not be heard to raise it on appeal to the Circuit Court, for the reason that the affidavit and warrant were amendable, and if objection had been made before the justice or recorder, the insufficiency could have been cured. Smith v. State, 73 Ala. 11 ; Laney v. State, 109 Ala. 34 , 19 So. 531 . "`The above principles are reflected in and fortified by the provisions of Section 346 of Title 13, Code of Alabama, 1940, as follows: "`"It shall be no objection to the proceedings of the county court, either in that court or elsewhere, that they are imperfect or inaccurate; and when its proceedings are reviewed on appeal or certiorari, all amendable errors shall be regarded as amended, so as to present only the substantial inquiry of the guilt or innocence of the accused."' "Application denied."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Ex Parte Dison · Champion v. State“This appellant was found guilty in the County Court of Calhoun County upon his trial on a complaint charging him with the possession of prohibited beverages. Thereafter he perfected his appeal to the Circuit Court of Calhoun County.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ex Parte Dison
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.