53 Ala. App. 314 - Staggs v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently July 1991
8 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 Ex Parte Barber · State v. General Daniel Morgan Post No. 548 · State v. General Daniel Morgan Post No. 548 · 119 Cal. App. 82 - People v. Beesly · Cleaver v. United States
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[I]t seems ... that the prime target was an attempt to bribe a witness or a potential witness, as distinguished from an actual bribery of him by corruptly obtaining his commitment to violate his oath as a witness. To require that there be an understanding or agreement by the witness that he would testify falsely would mean that an attempt to get him to thus commit himself expressly or impliedly that failed of its purpose would not be within the inhibition of the particular law. It would mean that however overt and corrupt the offer of a bribe, the section is not violated in the absence of an agreement or understanding on the part of the offeree. Such a conclusion would thwart what seems to be the main objective of the section.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lamar 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.