Garrison v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently February 2017
15 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 Castor v. United States · Swansboro Country, Inc. v. Lumberman's Mortgage Co. · McDougall v. North Carolina · Union Labor Life Insurance v. Pireno · Scott v. Rosenberg
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"`An indictment which follows the language of a statute is sufficient to apprise the appellant of the charges against him, and to allow him to prepare a defense.' Copeland v. State , 455 So.2d 951 , 956 (Ala.Cr.App.), cert. denied, 455 So.2d 956 (Ala. 1984) (citations omitted) (quoted in Garrison v. State , 521 So.2d 997 , 1001 (Ala.Cr.App. 1986))."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“A person is legally accountable for the behavior of another constituting a criminal offense if, with the intent to promote or assist the commission of the offense . . . [h]e . . . induces or causes such other person to commit the offense; or . . . [h]e aids or abets such other person in committing the offense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The indictment or information shall be a plain, concise statement of facts in ordinary language sufficiently definite to inform a defendant of common understanding of the offense charged and with that degree of certainty which will enable the court, upon conviction, to pronounce the proper judgment.”
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.