346 So. 2d 533 - Rowser v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently February 2010
7 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 Jordan v. State · Pate v. State · Goforth v. State · 20 Ala. App. 28 - Gilbert v. State · 33 Ala. App. 364 - Hayes v. State
Most-quoted passages
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“`However, under certain circumstances, the fact that the accused made a hurried departure from the scene of the crime immediately after the crime was committed may constitute evidence of flight.' Rowser v. State, 346 So.2d 533, 535 (Ala. Cr.App.1977), cert. denied, 346 So.2d 536 (1977). `This will be true especially where the evidence shows that the accused ... left the county or jurisdiction immediately after the commission of the crime.' Rowser, 346 So.2d at 535.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Janezic v. State“However, where the State does not seek to show flight on the part of the defendant, it is incompetent for the defense to show that the accused voluntarily surrendered or failed to flee when the opportunity was offered.”
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.