38 Ala. App. 490 - Arthur v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently March 1978 · most notably 41 Ala. App. 351 - Johnson v. State (1961), 40 Ala. App. 600 - Smith v. State (1960)
25 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 Cobb v. Malone · Ex Parte State · Wesson v. State · Molton v. State · Reynolds 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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Moreover, if the prospective thief shall have obtained at some particular time the complete, independent and absolute possession and control of the chattel, adverse to the rights of the owner therein, the taking is complete. 36 C.J. p. 748, Section 45(3). And ‘a very slight asportation will be deemed sufficient.’ Molton v. State, 105 Ala. 18 , 16 So. 795 , 796, 53 Am.St.Rep. 97 . . . . ””
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.