Kelso v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently June 1986
8 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 40 Ala. App. 234 - Moates v. State · 36 Ala. App. 560 - Redwine v. State · 25 Ala. App. 286 - Phillips v. State · 31 Ala. App. 66 - Rainey v. State · Gamble 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is therefore well settled by our decisions that it is not permissible to show that a defendant was drinking, or under the influence of intoxicating liquors, a substantial time after the commission of an offense, unless it first be shown that the defendant had no access to such liquor between the time of the offense and the time he was observed.” Moates v. State, 40 Ala.App. 234 , 115 So.2d 277 ; Blevins v. State, 38 Ala.App. 584 , 90 So.2d 98 ; Gamble v. State, 36 Ala.App. 581 , 60 So.2d 696 ; Rainey v. State, 31 Ala.App. 66 , 12 So.2d 106 ; Phillips v. State, 25 Ala.App. 286 , 145 So. 169 ; Turner v. State, 26 Ala.App. 397 , 160 So. 774 .”
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.