Brummitt v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently March 1994
6 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 Pumphrey v. State · Smith v. State · Brown v. State · Harris v. State · 19 Ala. App. 360 - Cole 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]o constitute rape, the degree of force used need not be such as to place prosecutrix under such reasonable apprehension of death or bodily harm as to overpower her will; it being sufficient if she was under such duress that the act was accomplished against her consent. Cole v. State , 19 Ala. App. 360 , 97 So. 891 , certiorari denied, Ex parte Cole , 210 Ala. 179 , 97 So. 895 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"Intent, we know, being a state or condition of the mind is rarely, if ever, susceptible of direct or positive proof and must usually be inferred from the facts testified to by witnesses and circumstances as developed by the evidence."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“'if she didn't give him nothing, he was going to cut her,' " then "unbuckled her jeans, put his hand under her *Page 1311 underwear and touched her private parts”
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.