35 Ala. App. 119 - Gills v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently June 2013 · most notably Garrett v. State (1958), 53 Ala. App. 460 - Edson v. State (1974)
51 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 Vernon v. State · Dyer v. State · Stephens v. State · 32 Ala. App. 408 - Kelley v. State · 30 Ala. App. 99 - Freeman 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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If the defendant committed on the person of the deceased an act of violence which produced death and at the time he inflicted such act he had the intention to kill or intended to do an act of violence from which ordinarily in the usual course of events death or great bodily harm may be the consequence he may be guilty of murder in the second degree.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“clearly there was not sufficient intervention of time from the main event to affect its admissibility”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.