34 Ala. App. 610 - Stovall v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
59 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently November 1986 · most notably 361 So. 2d 1106 - Chavers v. State (1978), Fulghum v. State (1973)
59 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 Edwards v. State · Vernon v. State · 32 Ala. App. 408 - Kelley v. State · Kelly v. State · Easley 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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A defendant who is accused of the , greater offense is entitled to have the court charge on the lesser offenses included in the indictment if there is any reasonable theory from 'the evidence which would support the position. Kelly v. State, 235 Ala. 5 , 176 So. 807 .””
2 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.