53 Ala. App. 156 - Poole v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently October 2008
22 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 48 Ala. App. 613 - Hannon v. State · Mosley v. State · 48 Ala. App. 730 - Shewey v. State · Pridmore v. State · 21 Ala. App. 177 - Parks v. State
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Judas was the most despised man in Biblical history and the passage of centuries has only served to solidify that feeling in the hearts and minds of generations after generations of peoples everywhere on the globe. No more opprobrious epithet, nothing more demeaning, degrading or debasing can be imagined than to liken a human being to Judas Iscariot. “The assistant district attorney transcended all boundaries of legitimate argument in referring to Judas in connection with appellant and his good character evidence, and committed prejudicial error . . . ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Poole v. State““... (a) felonious intent, (b) force or by putting in fear, and (c) by that means a taking and carrying away from his person or in his presence.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““I want you to think about this and use your common sense. Judas was a man of good reputation immediately before betraying Christ.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Poole v. State
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.