42 Ala. App. 314 - Douglas v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
57 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2017 · most notably Boykin v. Alabama (1969), Douglas v. Alabama (1965)
57 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 Costello v. United States · McNabb v. United States · Hamilton v. Alabama · Leon v. Klinger · Fikes 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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"In the investigation of a charge for any indictable offense, the grand jury can receive no other evidence than is given by witnesses before them, or furnished by legal documentary evidence. . . ."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"The weight, credit and quantity of what evidence a grand jury receives is not a matter of enquiry once it is shown that that body had either a witness or a document before it."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Sharp“"Indictments must come from evidence either (a) given viva voce by witnesses before the grand jury or (b) furnished by documents laid before that body. . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Sharp
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.