48 Ala. App. 743 - Ayers v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1972

Citation profile

cited by 38 later decisions

states following

June 1991

most recently cited

38 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently June 1991 · most notably Watson v. State (1980), 466 So. 2d 167 - Bell v. State (1985)

38 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 22 Ala. App. 39 - Craven v. State · 21 Ala. App. 234 - Jones v. State · 35 Ala. App. 119 - Gills v. State · 25 Ala. App. 179 - Curlette v. State · 19 Ala. App. 446 - Moulton 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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

“"Manslaughter in the second degree is defined as the unlawful killing of another human being, without malice and without the intent to kill or to inflict the injury resulting in death, but accidentally committed by the accused while he was doing an unlawful act amounting to a misdemeanor , or accidentally committed by the accused while he was doing a lawful act, but in a grossly negligent or improper manner." (Emphasis added.) Jones v. State , 21 Ala. App. 234 , 236 , 109 So. 189 (1926).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. 56 Ala. App. 609 - Smith v. State · 389 So. 2d 567 - Evans v. State
““On the other hand, it is permissible to show by a late arriving witness that the defendant was drunk in his presence, provided the State also shows that the surrounding circumstances are such as to preclude the possibility of appellant drinking after the accident.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
e.g. 516 So. 2d 798 - Bickerstaff v. State
“To infer that the appellant could have had access to alcohol during this period of time, and under the existing conditions . . . would require that common sense be laid aside.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
e.g. 520 So. 2d 182 - Smoot 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.