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← 239 Ala. 38 - Jackson v. State

Jackson v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1940

Citation profile

52
cited by 52 later decisions
2
cited 2 times by the Supreme Court
4
states following
November 1986
most recently cited

50 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 52 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1986 · most notably Herring v. New York (1975), 392 So. 2d 1280 - Sanders v. State (1980)

50 state decisions

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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 Crawford v. State · Crenshaw v. State · McGuff v. State · Puckett v. State · Bone 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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “"Each case must be considered upon its own record in passing upon whether there was an abuse of discretion, an infringement upon constitutional right, in fixing the time limit for argument. Much ground may be reasonably covered within thirty minutes. On full consideration we cannot say affirmatively there was error in this ruling.””
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “The exclusion of a witness having good sense, however tender the age, is disfavored because it would often close the door to prove crimes against children themselves.”
    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.