43 Ala. App. 218 - Magee v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently August 1993
14 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 Pointer v. Texas · William Marbury v. James Madison · In re Oliver · Adamson v. People of State of California · Neufield v. United States
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . Moreover, upon the sworn petition of the defendant in a criminal prosecution showing that a convict serving sentence in the penitentiary knows facts which would be beneficial to him, the judge may, if he believes the ends of justice will be served thereby, order the issuance of such a writ to secure the appearance of the convict to testify on behalf of the defendant. . . . ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““ * * * [W]e note in criminal prosecutions the defendant takes the following steps to get the personal presence of a penitentiary prisoner in his behalf: “1) File a sworn petition with trial court; and “2) Show therein facts known by the convict witness, ‘which would be beneficial to’ the defendant.””
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.