Potter v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently April 1991
11 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 Bluett v. State · Rowe v. State · Ray v. State · Fowler v. State · Buffalow 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Objection is made in brief that written requested charges marked ‘given’ by the trial judge were not taken by the jury with them to retirement. Tit. 7, § 273, Code of Alabama, 1940. This failure has been held to be error which will cause a reversal.... However, upon a review of the record we fail to find any proof of such omission. On the contrary, the very last words uttered by the trial judge before the jury retired were: “ ‘Very well, take the indictment and these charges that the Court has given you, Mr. Sheriff, see that a jury room is clear back there. Ladies and Gentlemen of the Jury, you may retire and consider your verdict.’ “Since the matter was not raised on motion for a new trial, it is not presented for review.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Pruett 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.