50 Ala. App. 172 - Upshaw v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
30 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Douglas v. People of State of California · United States of America Ex Rel. Joel Smith v. The Hon. Daniel McMann Warden of the Auburn State Prison, Auburn, New York · Ex Parte Taylor · 42 Ala. App. 552 - Woodard v. State · United States of America Ex Rel. John G. O'Brien C-8019 v. J. F. Maroney, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Pittsburgh, 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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. . . [T]he well established principal [is] that to be entitled to the writ [of error coram nobis] the petitioner must aver and prove that he was innocent of the crimes of which he stands convicted. Ex parte Taylor, 249 Ala. 667 , 32 So.2d 659 ; Ex parte Fewell, 261 Ala. 246 , 73 So.2d 558 ; Woodward v. State, 42 Ala.App. 552 , 171 So.2d 462; Argo v. State, 43 Ala.App. 564 , 195 So.2d 901 [cert. den. 280 Ala. 707 , 195 So.2d 909 , cert. den. 389 U.S. 865 , 88 S.Ct. 129 , 19 L.Ed.2d 136 ]; Rickard v. State, 44 Ala.App. 281 , 207 So.2d 422 .”
2 later decisions 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.