38 Ala. App. 17 - Roughton v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently July 1999
17 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 34 Ala. App. 487 - Womack v. State · 30 Ala. App. 89 - Emerson v. State · 32 Ala. App. 365 - Pate v. State · 29 Ala. App. 568 - Gray v. State · Brooks 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The uncontroverted testimony of the officers was sufficient proof of the illegal character of the contents of the jug. "`A charge of illegally possessing prohibited liquors can be sustained by circumstantial evidence just as any other material fact in a criminal charge.' Green v. State , 31 Ala. App. 359 , 18 So.2d 872 , 873 . "If from the facts and circumstances proven, there arises a reasonable inference adverse to the innocence of the accused a jury question is presented."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Boyington 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.