17 Ala. App. 379 - Abrams v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1920
Citation profile
2 district · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently July 1958 · most notably Lakey v. State (1921), 26 Ala. App. 607 - Moore v. State (1935)
2 district · 31 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 Ex Parte State, in re Brooms v. State · Moore v. State · Fuller v. State · Smith v. State · 16 Ala. App. 240 - Joyner 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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““No objection must be allowed to the competency of a witness because of his conviction for any crime, except perjury or subornation of perjury; but if he has been convicted of a crime involving moral turpitude, the objection goes to his credibility.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lakey v. State““A witness may be examined touching his conviction for crime, and his answers may be contradicted by other evidence.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lakey v. State
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.