36 Ala. App. 11 - Royals v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently December 2013 · most notably 363 So. 2d 1020 - Thomas v. State (1978), Cox v. State (1967)
40 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 Patterson v. State · Ryan v. State · Snead v. State · 35 Ala. App. 71 - Head v. State · Ex Parte Woodward Iron Co.
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The identity of the accused as the perpetrator of the offense is a part and parcel of the corpus delicti of every offense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Royals v. State
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.