Bailey v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently November 1987
6 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 Williams v. State · Johnson v. State · Scruggs v. State · 22 Ala. App. 472 - Jones 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““4. The court charges the jury that if the deceased made a sudden unprovoked murderous attack on the defendant and the deceased being then and there armed with a deadly weapon and in the act of effectuating upon the defendant his murderous purpose, and after considering all the evidence in this case you find this- to be true and you further find from all the evidence in the case that the defendant was free from fault in bringing on the difficulty he had a right to stand his ground and kill his assailant.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hutchinson v. State“A 'deadly weapon' is not only a weapon with which death may be easily and readily produced, but one which is likely to produce death or great bodily harm from the manner in which it is used.”
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.