Bester v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 56 Ala. App. 613 - Tooson v. State · 40 Ala. App. 306 - Crews v. State · 56 Ala. App. 620 - Tooson v. State · Tooson v. State · American Hardware Mutual Insurance v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"An indictment may be amended, with the consent of the defendant entered of record, when the name of the defendant is incorrectly stated or when any person, property or matter therein stated is incorrectly described."”
2 later decisions 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.