46 Ala. App. 310 - Martin v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2018 · most notably Alabama v. Shelton (2002), 48 Ala. App. 418 - Buckelew v. State (1972)
50 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 Escoe v. Zerbst · State v. Duncan · 186 So. 2d 520 - McNeely v. State · Schultz v. Pacific Insurance · 107 So. 2d 264 - Cloud v. Fallis
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“' "[p]robation or suspension of sentence comes as an act of grace to one convicted of, or pleading guilty to, a crime. A proceeding to revoke probation is not a criminal prosecution, and we have no statute requiring a formal trial. Upon a hearing of this character, the court is not bound by strict rules of evidence, and the alleged violation of a valid condition of probation need not be proven beyond a reasonable doubt.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Ex Parte JJD · Nicholson v. State““The conduct of the hearing need not be formal nor bound by the rules of evidence usual for jury trials. Thus, when the probation officer files his report of a violation it can serve as both pleading and proof 2 to support a prima facie case for revocation. The initial burden of persuasion has been met and the prisoner must then counter it if he can.”
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.