43 Ala. App. 298 - Shellnut v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently February 1983
7 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 Ward 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Under Code 1940, Title 7, Sec. 567, the court may amend the judgment, ‘ * * * when there is sufficient matter apparent on the record or entries of the court to amend by.’ We hold that the record entries do not sufficiently show the presence in court of appellant’s court appointed attorney at the time of sentencing to authorize the amendment made.” (Italics supplied.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. White v. State““Where a plea of guilty is not freely and voluntarily entered the denial of leave to withdraw the plea and stand trial is an abuse of the court’s discretion. Ward v. State, 1945, 156 Fla. 185 , 22 So.2d 887 .””
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.