16 Ala. App. 546 - Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1918
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently February 1951 · most notably 33 Ala. App. 414 - Lovejoy v. State (1948), 21 Ala. App. 140 - Lancaster v. State (1925)
29 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 Ryan v. State · 15 Ala. App. 584 - Britton v. State · Truett 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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The well-settled rule in relation to evidence of this character is that the statement must be of a character which naturally calls for a reply, and the party to be affected by it must be in a situation in which he would probably respond.””
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.