Chavers v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
May 1987
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Parker v. State · Caldwell v. State · Smith v. State · Nixon 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t has been uniformly held that in a homicide case in which self-defense is relied upon by defendant, the physical condition of the victim is admissible in evidence. Nixon v. State , 261 Ala. 74 , 72 So.2d 846 ; Smith v. State , 209 Ala. 666 , 96 So. 779 .”
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.