Dennison v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
116 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 116 later decisions — most recently March 1988 · most notably Fikes v. State (1955), Hines v. State (1954)
116 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 Levison v. State · Smith v. State · 35 Ala. App. 18 - Fitzhugh v. State · Mitchell v. State · 25 Ala. App. 297 - Smith 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 116 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * “The preliminary proof identifying and describing the considered articles fully complied with the rule and under no sort of theory would the trial court have been warranted in refusing their admission.” * * *”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage“"In order for such testimony to be admissible it is not required that proof be made that the body was in the exact condition as it was when death occurred. The evidence was prima facie admissible if it is shown that the body had undergone no substantial change with regard to the matter under investigation; that there had been no illegal tampering with it or that any alteration from its original condition at death did not obliterate or change the condition which is sought to be shown. If, as here, the change was incidental and in no way affected the question at issue, the testimony was admissible. . . ." (Citations omitted.) Dennison v. State , 259 Ala. 424 , 429 , 66 So.2d 552 , 556 (1953).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hope v. State“"It is true the defendant may have been somewhat weakened by having taken the sleeping pills some nine days previously, but there is no evidence to indicate in the slightest that she was not in full use of her mental faculties or that the confession was induced by any kind of duress or promise. In this connection it is to be observed that the voluntariness of a confession is not affected by the fact that the accused was not in full possession of her faculties, although that is a circumstance to be considered by the jury in weighing its verity. Vinzant v. States, 28 Ala.App. 220 , 180 So. 736 ; Smith v. State, 25 Ala. App. 297 , 145 So. 504 ; * * *"”
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.