36 Ala. App. 175 - Clayton v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
13
cited by 13 later decisions
1
states following
October 1979
most recently cited
13 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 30 Ala. App. 99 - Freeman v. State · Rainey v. State · Booth v. State · Godfrey v. Vinson · Indemnity Ins. Co. of North America v. Turnipseed
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Intention to take life is not necessarily an ingredient of manslaughter, even in the first degree. In order to constitute manslaughter in the first degree, there must be either a positive intention to kill or to commit an act of violence from which ordinarily in the usual course of events, death or great bodily injury may be a consequence."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"Now, there is some evidence of the defendant being drunk or intoxicated, and the Court charges you that voluntary drunkenness is not a defense to manslaughter in either degree because the offense does not involve a specific intent, neither offensemanslaughter in the first degree or manslaughter in the second degree, involves the specific intent to kill."”
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.