32 Ala. App. 644 - Gettings v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
77 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 77 later decisions — most recently August 2001 · most notably Gladden v. State (1974), 33 Ala. App. 414 - Lovejoy v. State (1948)
77 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 Roan v. State · 31 Ala. App. 21 - Wilson v. State · Desilvey v. State · 32 Ala. App. 408 - Kelley v. State · 30 Ala. App. 99 - Freeman 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 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The decisions of our appellate courts are clear to the position that if a person, without legal excuse or justification, shoots at one individual and inadvertently kills another, he would be guilty of the same degree of unlawful homicide as if he had killed the object of his aim. It is also settled by the authorities that if he was acting in self-defense and *Page 811 accidentally killed another he would be guilty of no crime."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Carter v. State
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.