Jarrell v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 82 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 86 later decisions — most recently December 2010 · most notably Willcutt v. State (1969), Burgess v. United States (1970)
4 federal appellate · 82 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 Blue v. State · Crawford v. State · Hill v. State · Hawes v. State · Peterson 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 86 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Counsel may comment on the failure of his adversary to produce evidence . . . when the comment is pertinent to answer an argument made by opposing counsel.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Dossey v. State · Coke v. State““Counsel for a party to whom a particular person is not available as a witness may comment on the failure of the other party to whom that person is available to call him as a witness.” Jarrell v. State, 251 Ala. 50 , 36 So.2d 336 .”
2 later decisions 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.