Denson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently August 1994
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 32 Ala. App. 651 - State v. Smith · 34 Ala. App. 477 - Tucker v. State · Murray v. Harris · 35 Ala. App. 612 - Hooper v. Britt · Bradford 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“I, GEORGE C. WALLACE, Governor of the State To any SHERIFF, CORONER, CONSTABLE or other OFFICER authorized by Law to make Arrest send GREETING: WHEREAS, His Excellency, DOLPH BRISCO Governor of the state of TEXAS, by requisition dated the 16TH day of DECEMBER, 1977 has demanded of me, as Governor of the State of Alabama, the surrender of DOYLE SHIRLEY who, it appears, is charged by INDICTMENT CAPIAS, in the county of CHAMBERS in said State, with the crime of MURDER WITH MALICE (a duly certified copy of which INDICTMENT CAPIAS accompanies said requisition) and it appearing that said DOYLE SHIRLEY has fled from justice in said State and taken refuge in the State of Alabama. . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The fact of the establishment of the prima facie case does not preclude the petitioner from showing that the governor issued the warrant without authority of law. The bar to a right so vital to the liberty of a citizen would be deemed extremely unfair. “The Supreme Court of South Carolina in the case of Ex parte Murray, 112 S.C. 342, 99 S.E. 798 , 5 A.L.R. 1152 , held that a refusal to allow the petitioner to inspect the requisition and accompanying papers, or, after demand, refusal to produce them (or copies) will rebut the prima facie sufficiency of the governor’s warrant.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Johnson 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.