34 Ala. App. 608 - Thompson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently July 1995
11 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 In re Eastman Kodak Co. · 32 Ala. App. 90 - Hale v. Layer · 32 Ala. App. 128 - Tatum v. State · Holcomb v. Cornish · 26 Ala. App. 347 - Hill 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The mandate of the statute prohibiting public drunkenness requires proof that the alleged offender, while intoxicated, appeared in a public place, or at or within the curtilage of a private residence not his own, where one or more people were present and manifested his or her drunken condition by boisterous, or indecent conduct, or loud or profane discourse.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mitchell v. State““A mere ‘staggering’ by a drunken accused is not sufficient to establish this offense in the absence of one or more of the elements above enumerated manifesting his drunken condition, that is evidence that the accused was boisterous or indecent in his conduct, or loud and profane.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mitchell 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.