49 Ala. App. 138 - Flippo v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently September 1995 · most notably Raines v. State (1975), Charles Coleman, Cross-Appellee v. State of Alabama, Cross-Appellant (1987)
2 federal appellate · 26 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 In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Gault · Duncan v. State of Louisiana · United States v. Jackson · McKeiver v. Pennsylvania
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[T]he court shall (a) suspend the imposition or execution of sentence with or without probation, or (b) place the defendant on probation for a period not to exceed three years, or (c) impose a fine as provided by law for the offense with or without probation or commitment, or (d) commit the defendant to the custody of the director of the department of correction for a term of three years or a lesser term.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Raines v. State“". . . This defect does not render the indictment void. The constitutional requirement that the accused be made aware of the nature and cause of the charge against him was met. The proper way, however, to reach defects in an indictment is by demurrer and not by motion to quash. Duncan v. State , 278 Ala. 145 , 176 So.2d 840 ; Boulo v. State , 49 Ala. 22 ; Daniel v. State , 149 Ala. 44 , 43 So. 22 ."”
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.