Hall v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently May 1990
18 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 Ellis v. State · Wynn v. McCraney · 54 Ala. App. 707 - Palmer v. State · 26 Ala. App. 189 - Calvert v. State · Childers v. Holmes
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. “Any convict who escapes or attempts to escape from the penitentiary, or from any person or guard having him in charge under authority of law, either within or outside the walls of the penitentiary before the expiration of the term for which he was sentenced, shall, on conviction be imprisoned for an additional term of not less than one year.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Thornton v. State““The trial docket sheet is not a record, but is only a directive to the clerk as to what judgments and orders should be entered on the court’s records.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Weed v. State“in the statutory sense of the word, in the penitentiary”
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.