20 Ala. App. 257 - Williams v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1924
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently December 1988
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.
Relationships
Relies on 19 Ala. App. 604 - Aplin v. State · 16 Ala. App. 475 - Manley 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Courts are created to determine matters in issue which require proof. Anything which is neither directly nor indirectly relevant to the issues ought at once to be 'put aside, as beyond the jurisdiction of the tribunal, and as tending to distract its attention and to waste its time.' Jones on Evidence, par. 135, p. 151. . . . The only effect that this could have had would be to prejudice the jury against the defendant. . . . Unless such evidence is legal, relating to the issues involved, no defendant should be burdened with this proof."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“his moral and social standing would be lowered in the minds of the average jury,”
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.