33 Ala. App. 70 - Allen v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently November 2005 · most notably Fuller v. State (1959), Ex Parte Bush (1983)
50 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 Arant v. State · Smith v. State · 20 Ala. App. 161 - Taylor v. State · Bain v. State · Pettus v. Louisville N. R. Co.
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The statement that the facts violate a certain section of the statute is nothing more than the pleader's conclusion, which may or may not be correct, and neither adds nor detracts from the allegation.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““ * * * The misrecital of the code sections did not render the complaint void, if the facts set forth constituted an offense under any statute.””
1 later decision 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.