39 Ala. App. 423 - Ex Parte Powell’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Griffin v. People of the State of Illinois · People's Church of San Fernando Valley, Inc. v. County of Los Angeles · Hawkins v. State · Ex Parte Fewell · Cooper v. Warden of Maryland House of Correction
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We are as zealous as anyone that our penitentiaries should confine no one who is innocent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Powell v. Wiman
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.