Lewis v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently July 2014
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 363 So. 2d 1020 - Thomas v. State · 391 So. 2d 677 - Ex Parte Dolvin · 391 So. 2d 666 - Dolvin v. State · 373 So. 2d 1211 - Stokes v. State · 373 So. 2d 1218 - Henderson 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.
“'In a criminal case, proof of venue is sufficient if it can be reasonably inferred by the jury from the facts and circumstances adduced. Segars v. State , 409 So.2d 1003 (Ala.Cr.App. 1982). Venue need not be established solely by direct evidence. Evidence from which it is inferable *Page 304 is sufficient. Dolvin v. State , 391 So.2d 666 (Ala.Cr.App. 1979), aff'd , 391 So.2d 677 (Ala. 1980); Stokes v. State , 373 So.2d 1211 (Ala.Cr.App.), cert. denied, 373 So.2d 1218 (Ala. 1979).'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"When an offense is committed on the boundary of two or more counties or within a quarter of a mile thereof or when it is committed so near the boundary of two counties as to render it doubtful in which the offense was committed, venue is in either county."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[one of] fact so entwined with the merits . . . that a decision should not be made prior to trial but postponed until trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.