Gast v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently August 1991 · most notably Fikes v. State (1955), Oliver v. State (1936)
51 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 Cobb v. Malone · McMillan v. Aiken · Jones v. State · Fries v. Acme White Lead & Color Works · Oliver 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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. . The sufficiency of a witness’ efficiency in the knowledge of the subject and material facts to qualify him to testify is largely within the sound discretion of the trial court. Watson et al. v. Hardaway-Covington Cotton Co., 223 Ala. 443 , 137 So. 33 ; Louisville & Nashville R. Co. v. Lovell, 196 Ala. 94 , 71 So. 995 ; Pope v. Ryals (Ala.Sup.) [ 232 Ala. 260 ,] 167 So. 721 ; Williams v. State, 224 Ala. 6 , 138 So. 291 ; Bass v. State, 219 Ala. 282 , 122 So. 45 ; Kilpatrick v. State, 213 Ala. 358 , 104 So. 656 ; Jones v. State, 181 Ala. 63 , 61 So. 434 . And no abuse of discretion was shown to have been committed by the trial court in allowing the witnesses — expert and lay — to testify.””
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.