44 Ala. App. 281 - Rickard v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently January 2005 · most notably 50 Ala. App. 172 - Upshaw v. State (1973), Seibert v. State (1977)
26 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 of Oklahoma · Maxwell v. Dow · David Busby v. William C. Holman, Warden, Kilby Prison · Ex Parte Taylor · 42 Ala. App. 552 - Woodard 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“". . . and the sentencing court shall not be required to entertain a second or successive petition for similar relief on behalf of the same prisoner. A successive petition on different grounds will not be entertained unless good cause is shown why the new ground or grounds were not known or could not have been reasonably ascertained when the first petition was heard."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““Nowhere in the instant petition does Rickard explain why he failed to set forth the now averred grounds in his former applications for the writ. The State’s motion was well taken. * * *»”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“assault with intent to rob, for larceny, for attempt to rob, for assault, or for an assault and battery.”
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.