36 Ala. App. 169 - Pendley v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently June 2003
8 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 Leach v. State · Ball v. State · 15 Ala. App. 262 - Palmer v. State · 31 Ala. App. 228 - Brackin v. State · 36 Ala. App. 205 - Agnew 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“On motion filed within 30 days from entry of judgment, a new trial may be granted for the following grounds: (1) Irregularity in the proceedings of the court, jury, or state or any order of court or abuse of discretion by which the defendant was prevented from having a fair trial[.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Brummer“[I]nsofar as the parties litigant are concerned, a motion for a new trial must be in writing. A court itself of course possesses the inherent right to ex mero motu grant new trials when the ends of justice so demand if such action is timely taken.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Brummer““When two or more defendants are jointly indicted, they may be tried either jointly or separately, as either may elect.””
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.