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← 53 Ala. App. 632 - Ex Parte James

53 Ala. App. 632 - Ex Parte James’s Empirical Analysis

1974

Citation profile

2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
June 1989
most recently cited

2 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Gideon v. Wainwright · Griffin v. People of the State of Illinois · Griswold v. State of Connecticut · Coleman v. Alabama

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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “Like many common law doctrines the peace bond has become a nonheroie Don Quixote of the law which now masquerades aimlessly through the reports, still vigorous, still viable, but, as in this case, equally dangerous.”
    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.