40 Ala. App. 118 - Davis v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently January 1986
20 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 Roberson v. State · 39 Ala. App. 29 - Beddow v. State · Clemons v. State · 19 Ala. App. 432 - Baker v. State · Ragsdale 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where, as here, the extended charge does not cure the error of the original charge to which an exception was reserved, but continues the error, we do not think the failure to again except should be deemed a waiver of the original exception. For, as stated in Long-Bell Lumber Co. v. Stump, 8 Cir., 86 F. 574 , 583: 'And, so far from the silence of counsel at the reassertion of the error by the court evidencing a waiver of the first error, it but evinces a respectful deportment by counsel towards the court.’”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““However, it is incumbent on the defendant to introduce such evidence, under the plea of self defense, as to generate in your .mind a doubt as to whether or not the defendant is guilty or whether he is innocent by reason of self defense. ?}c * * * * * “Before he establishes the fact that he was free from fault in bringing on the difficulty, he must bring forth facts to show that he was in real, apparent, or imminent danger.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the court yet left the establishment of self-defense to rest upon a reasonable doubt generated from the evidence brought forth by the defendant.”
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.