Griffin v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
July 1977
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Smith v. Smith · 39 Ala. App. 575 - Dixon v. State · Johnson v. State · 38 Ala. App. 17 - Roughton v. State · Jenkins 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Whiskey is a spiritous liquor within the common knowledge of all men, and juries may so find without specific proof. Freiberg v. State, 94 Ala. 91 , 10 So. 703 . The State having presented evidence from which the jury could reasonably infer that the appellant was transporting prohibited whiskey in quantities of five gallons or more, it had met its burden in establishing its prima facie case. If the whiskey so being transported was unfit for beverage purposes, such fact was a defensive matter to be shown by the appellant, in the absence of evidence by the State to such effect.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mars v. State
How this case has been treated — in progress
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