55 Ala. App. 436 - Williams v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently February 2010
2 federal appellate · 14 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 Gordon v. State · Smith v. State · 18 Ala. App. 70 - Johnson v. State · 49 Ala. App. 489 - Horn v. State · Vecciarelli v. Johnson Ford, Inc.
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`If any crime, says Bacon, deserved to be punished in a more exemplary manner, this one certainly does. Other crimes may be prejudicial to society, but this one strikes at its being. A person who has been guilty of so abusing his faculties will not be likely afterwards to have a proper regard for the opposite sex. The tendency is to deprave the appetite and produce in the person insensibility to the most ecstatic pleasure which human nature is capable of enjoyingthe society of women.... The tendency of the imputation is to degrade the person charged both morally and socially, and forever brand him with unpardonable infamy and disgracea social outlaw; and hence the charge, if unfounded and maliciously made, must be regarded as one of the most grievous wrongs known to the law of our land.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ex Parte HH“"If we need to say more, if the record of constant quadrimillennial revulsion of moralistic civilizations from the vice that evoked the total and everlasting destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah has been blurred by the mutations of a few years of a single century, we underscore what was said in Horn v. State, 49 Ala.App. 489 , 273 So.2d 249 (1973):”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ex Parte HH“`Moral turpitude means something "immoral in itself.... It must not be merely mala prohibita, but the act itself must be inherently immoral.... It is the nature of the act itself, and not its legislative characterization or punishment which must be the test in determining whether or not it involves moral turpitude.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ex Parte HH
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.