52 Ala. App. 690 - Shields v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently January 2005 · most notably 57 Ala. App. 529 - McDonald v. State (1975), 375 So. 2d 1257 - Williams v. State (1979)
39 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 Morris v. State · Jackson v. State · Miller v. United States · Palmore v. State · State Ex. Rel. Gregg v. Maples
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"In charging the jury, it was incumbent on the judge to give the law applicable to all theories presented by the evidence. This was necessary to enable the jury to make a judgment in view of the testimony before them. Glover v. State , 21 Ala. App. 423 , 109 So. 125 [(1926)]."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““The fraud required to quash the venire is the intentional omission from the jury roll of names of a large number of legally qualified citizens, and such intentional systematic exclusion must be shown.””
3 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.