34 Ala. App. 551 - Garner v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
18
cited by 18 later decisions
1
states following
October 1977
most recently cited
18 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Way v. State · 21 Ala. App. 234 - Jones v. State · 32 Ala. App. 591 - Wilson v. State · 17 Ala. App. 80 - Perry v. State · 32 Ala. App. 246 - Brown 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 18 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.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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