Fonville v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1890
Citation profile
57 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently June 1991 · most notably Jones v. State (1913), State ex rel. Attorney General v. Tally (1893)
57 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 Parsons v. State · Gassenheimer v. State · Ford v. State · Alabama Great Soiitliern Railroad v. Hawk · Maxwell 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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Either theory might be warranted, in the absence of the other. If there is evidence tending to show the guilt of the defendant, and also evidence tending to exculpate him, it is for the jury to determine from all the evidence whether they are legally satisfied of the defendant’s guilt, and not for the court to instruct them what part of the evidence they shall credit, and what conviction such evidence shall produce on their minds, or which theory they shall accept.””
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.