39 Ala. App. 413 - Crim v. Crim.’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently April 2009
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 Gulsby v. Louisville & Nashville R. R. · Lunsford v. Dietrich · Sanders v. Davis · McLeod v. McLeod · Jordan v. Ala. Great So. R. R.
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 expression ‘probable cause’ has been defined in Lunsford v. Dietrich, 93 Ala. 565 , 9 So. 308 , 310 [(1891)], “‘a reasonable ground of suspicion, supported by circumstances sufficiently strong in themselves to warrant a cautious man in the belief that the person accused is guilty of the offense charged.” ’ — citing Davie v. Wisher, 72 Ill. 262 [(1874)]. Alternatively, in that case, the court quoted from Jordan v. Alabama Great So. R. Co., 81 Ala. 220 , 8 So. 191 [(1886)], ‘ “probable cause is such a state of facts and circumstances as would lead a man of ordinary caution and prudence, acting conscientiously, impartially, reasonably, and without prejudice, to believe that the person accused is guilty.” ’ ””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage““It follows as a reasonable and observative "deduction that a,-person may in’good faith entertain all .of the necessary requisites of probable cause and oh this basis institute a prosecution, and, nevertheless, the accused may be acquitted of the charge. If it were not so, there could bé a serious determent to the enforcement of our criminal laws.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““ ‘It is not enough that the accused is innocent and has been proven to be so. The plaintiff'must-go further and show that there was no probable cause for thinking that he was guilty.’ Street, Foundations of Legal Liability, Vol. 1, pp. 329-330.””
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.