57 Ala. App. 172 - Arnold v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently January 2011 · most notably 372 So. 2d 26 - Baldwin v. State (1978), 346 So. 2d 979 - Reynolds v. State (1977)
28 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 Pickett v. State · 42 Ala. App. 618 - Carpenter v. State · 45 Ala. App. 74 - Robinson v. State · 49 Ala. App. 111 - King v. State · Nash v. City of West Palm Beach
Most-quoted passages
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“Proof of the corpus delicti does not necessarily include evidence connecting defendant with the crime. The term, meaning body of the offense, connotes the actual commission of the crime by someone. Latham v. State, 38 Ala.App. 92 , 77 So.2d 499 , cert. stricken, 262 Ala. 108 , 77 So.2d 502 ; Malone v. State, 37 Ala.App. 432 , 71 So.2d 99 , cert. denied, 260 Ala. 699 , 71 So.2d 101 . Evidence showing the corpus delicti coupled with evidence of the confession of defendant furnished a sufficient basis for the verdict of the jury.”
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.