44 Ala. App. 395 - Martin v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently January 1999
22 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 Hill v. State · Gamble v. State · 33 Ala. App. 536 - Singleton v. State · 33 Ala. App. 395 - Cox v. State · 19 Ala. App. 172 - Tribble 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The state is not required to prove the entrance door or window was locked. If entry is made by opening a closed door this is sufficient to show a breaking. Adair v. State , 19 Ala. App. 174 , 95 So. 827 ; Cox v. State , 33 Ala. App. 395 , 34 So.2d 179 ."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““ * * * The state’s evidence shows that Ruth Hicks’ four children were in the bedroom and her husband left the house about the time some of the others went to bed. The evidence does not negative the fact that one of these persons opened a door or window through which the accused entered the house.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Schofield v. State
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.