Bearden v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1889
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently March 1999
10 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.
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If it be contended . . . that our decision goes the length of holding that the sureties in a bail-bond may exonerate themselves by surrendering their principal, even after final judgment against them, our answer is, that that question is not before us, and we do not decide it. ...” ( 89 Ala. at 23 , 7 So. at 756)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Swift v. Esdale“They (the bondsmen) delivered the defendant to the sheriff, and the statute declares that they thereby exonerated themselves. This leaves us without discretion.”
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.