40 Ala. App. 151 - Petty v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently October 2010 · most notably 587 So. 2d 1072 - Parker v. State (1991), 42 Ala. App. 314 - Douglas v. State (1963)
25 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 Ex Parte State · 35 Ala. App. 71 - Head v. State · Hudson v. State · 33 Ala. App. 557 - Cauley v. State · 19 Ala. App. 432 - Baker 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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘In the first place, charge 8 omits all reference to duty to retreat. This omission would justify its refusal. King v. State, 233 Ala. 198 , 171 So. 254 ; Danley v. State, 27 Ala.App. 402 , 173 So. 648 ; Early v. State, 31 Ala.App. 488 , 18 So.2d 873 ; Seekers v. State, 35 Ala.App. 40 , 44 So.2d 628 ; Freeman v. State, 37 Ala.App. 623 , 74 So.2d 513 . “ ‘Refusal of the charge is further justified by its omission of any reference to freedom from fault in bringing on the difficulty. Ford v. State, 33 Ala.App. 134 , 30 So.2d 582 ; Cauley v. State, 33 Ala.App. 557 , 36 So.2d 347 ; Coleman v. State, 37 Ala.App. 406 , 69 So.2d 481 .’ ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Evidence as to the scene of a crime, as to objects found thereat, and as to the condition of the body, is admissible and relevant evidence, when reasonably proximate to the scene in time and location.”
2 later decisions 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.