40 Ala. App. 36 - Owens v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently December 1986 · most notably 54 Ala. App. 251 - Jones v. State (1975), 54 Ala. App. 217 - Clark v. State (1975)
2 federal appellate · 22 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 Cobb v. Malone · Batson v. State Ex Rel. Davis · 31 Ala. App. 390 - Leach v. State · Handley v. State · Ball 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There was no showing in this case of any disadvantage accruing to the defendant by reason of the appearance of the special prosecutor in this case. Hence there was no abuse of discretion in denying the motion for a mistrial and discharge of the jury.””
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.