Swafford v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
May 1977
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Allen v. United States · United States v. Fioravanti · United States v. Brown · 40 Ala. App. 45 - Orr v. State · 44 Ala. App. 479 - Hunt 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It costs the county money to have a jury; and, as I say some jury has to determine the case one way or the other. . . .”
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.