38 Ala. App. 692 - Bluth v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently November 1985 · most notably 44 Ala. App. 559 - Livingston v. State (1968), 39 Ala. App. 638 - Sumeral v. State (1958)
36 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 30 Ala. App. 316 - Taylor v. State · 25 Ala. App. 287 - Rungan v. State · Lang v. State · 32 Ala. App. 77 - Orr v. State · Ellison 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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“". . . [I]f the facts and circumstances can be reconciled with the theory that some agency other than the accused may have caused the death, then the accused is not shown to be guilty by that full measure of proof which the court requires." (Citations omitted).”
4 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.