389 So. 2d 567 - Evans v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently November 2012
11 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 366 So. 2d 318 - Hill v. State · 21 Ala. App. 234 - Jones v. State · Hill v. State · 354 So. 2d 1172 - Conley v. State · 25 Ala. App. 260 - Holley 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Moreover, there is no need to distinguish between 'being under the influence of intoxicating liquors' and being 'intoxicated.' As Judge Samford commented in Holley v. State , 25 Ala. App. 260 , 261 , 144 So. 535 (1932): " 'The difference is that of "Tweedle dee and Tweedle dum." . . . There are perhaps as many stages of intoxication as there are varieties of Heinz pickles, and the party affected rarely knows when he passes from one to another. But, in whatever state he is, if he drives a vehicle upon the public road he becomes a menace to the public and subjects himself to the penalties of the statute.' "”
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.