Alvarez v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1905
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently May 1982 · most notably State v. Robinson (1958), Anderson v. Alexander (1951)
2 federal appellate · 27 state decisions — followed in 15 states
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.
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'(i)f the prisoner denies that he is the same person who was convicted, sentenced, and pardoned, he is entitled to have a jury summarily impaneled to try such issue; but if his identity is not denied, all the other facts and issues can be heard by the judge alone, unless the judge, solely in his discretion, shall see proper to submit the facts to a jury for determination.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Morgan v. Wainwright
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.