45 Ala. App. 657 - Welch v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently July 1997 · most notably 47 Ala. App. 677 - Bedingfield v. State (1972), 431 So. 2d 1342 - Mayers v. State (1982)
28 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 Commonwealth v. Radford · Commonwealth v. Wucherer · 30 Ala. App. 356 - Duncan v. State · McAllister v. State · Berryhill v. Nichols
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“" In a death as distinguished from a `killing', the prosecution must prove an absence of natural causes. That is, the first step is to prove the victim died because he was killed." Welch, 45 Ala.App., at 658 , 235 So.2d at 907 , emphasis added.”
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.