Floyd v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently June 1976 · most notably Reedy v. State (1945), Boulden v. State (1965)
30 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 Snyder v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts · McMillan v. Aiken · Gassenheimer v. State · Rollings v. State · Campbell 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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The clothing of deceased, as well as that of the accused, are usually held admissible on trials of homicides. If tending to elucidate the transaction, to identify any of the parties, to connect the accused with the crime, or to show the character of the wound, motive or intent of the killing, or degree of the ¿rime, whether the killing was in self-defense or not, they are admissible. If such objects tend to corroborate or disprove, illustrate or elucidate any other evidence, they are admissible, though such evidence may have a tendency to bias or prejudice the jury, to elicit their sympathy for, or animosity toward either the deceased or the accused. Rollings v. State, 160 Ala. 82 , 49 So. 329 ; Whitaker v. State, 106 Ala. 30 , 17 So. 456 ; Curtis v. State, 118 Ala. 125 , 24 So. 111 ; McCormack v. State, 102 Ala. 156, 161 , 15 So. 438 ; Gassenheimer v. State, 52 Ala. 313 ; Campbell v. State, 23 Ala. 44 .” Teague v. State, 245 Ala. 339, 341 , 16 So.2d 877, 879 ; Floyd v. State, 245 Ala. 646, 647 , 18 So.2d 392 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Barbour 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.