50 Ala. App. 679 - Locklear v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently November 2013 · most notably 614 So. 2d 405 - Ex Parte Jackson (1993), 434 So. 2d 813 - Ex Parte Evers (1983)
45 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 Fuller v. State · Young v. State · Greek-American Produce Co. v. Illinois Central R. R. · 99 Tex. Crim. 111 - Stanford v. State · City of Pittsburgh v. Pittsburgh Railways Co.
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Criminal statutes cannot be extended to cases not included within the clear and obvious import of their language. Young v. State , 58 Ala. 358 (1). "No person is to be made subject to penal statutes by implication, and all doubts concerning their interpretation are to predominate in favor of accused. Fuller v. State , 257 Ala. 502 , 60 So.2d 202 (5). "Penal statutes are not to be extended by construction, but must be limited to cases clearly within the language used. Greek-American Produce Co. v. Illinois Central R.R. Co. , 4 Ala. App. 377 , 58 So. 994 (9)."”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“obscene or vulgar picture, placard, writing, or printed matter,”
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.