Bolin v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently June 2015
16 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 Bolin v. State · Carter 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“did have in his possession for the purpose of making, producing or manufacturing a stink bomb, or a substitute or device therefor, to-wit, three fourths of a liquid ounce of ethyl mercaptan, one of the ingredients necessary or commonly used in making, producing or manufacturing such stink bomb or substitute or device therefor, against the peace and dignity of the State of Alabama.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bolin v. State“"`It shall be unlawful * * * for any person or persons to have in their possession for the purpose of making, producing or manufacturing any stink bomb, or tear gas bomb, or any substitute or device therefor, any of the ingredients necessary or commonly used in making, producing or manufacturing such stink bomb or substitute or device therefor.'" [ 96 So.2d 592 ]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bolin 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.