32 Ala. App. 591 - Wilson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently March 1978 · most notably 368 So. 2d 554 - Sprinkle v. State (1978), 34 Ala. App. 35 - Ledbetter v. State (1948)
30 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 30 Ala. App. 99 - Freeman v. State · Booth v. State · 31 Ala. App. 423 - Shikles v. State · 21 Ala. App. 234 - Jones v. State · Montgomery 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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘Manslaughter in the second degree is defined as the unlawful killing of anoth er human being, without malice and without intent to kill or to inflict the injury resulting in death, but accidentally committed by the accused while he was doing an unlawful act amounting to a misdemeanor, or accidentally committed by the accused while he was doing a lawful act, but in a grossly negligent or improper manner.’ ””
4 later decisions 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.