401 So. 2d 151 - Wilder v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently September 2011 · most notably 516 So. 2d 726 - Jackson v. State (1985), 507 So. 2d 558 - Korreckt v. State (1987)
36 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 Connally v. General Construction Co. · Screws v. United States · Lanzetta v. State New Jersey · United States v. Mazurie · Jordan v. De George
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The general rule in Alabama is that it is sufficient to charge the elements of the *Page 1152 statutory offense in the words of the statute. Gayden v. State , 262 Ala. 468 , 80 So.2d 501 (1955). "The only qualification to this rule is that the indictment must apprise the accused with reasonable certainty of the nature of the accusation against him, so that he may prepare his defense and plead the judgment of conviction as a bar to any subsequent prosecution for the same offense. United States v. Simmons , 96 U.S. 360 , [ 6 Otto 360 ] 24 L.Ed. 819 (1877)."”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“"did vote more than once as an absentee voter, or did deposit more than one absentee ballot for the same office or offices as her vote, or did cast illegal or fraudulent absentee ballots, in the Democratic Primary Run-off Election of September 26, 1978,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“only a jury could unscramble the hodge-podge of the testimony”
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.