19 Ala. App. 299 - Woods v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently June 2000 · most notably State v. Wallace (1988), 575 So. 2d 1165 - Arthur v. State (1990)
42 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 Anderson v. State · Birmingham Railway, Light & Power Co. v. Drennen · Pope v. State · Alabama Great Soiitliern Railroad v. Hawk · Madry 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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'The personal opinion of the prosecuting attorney as to the guilt of the accused is not evidence, and the sanction of such an opinion by the court is serious error.'”
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.