26 Ala. App. 15 - Kersh v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently June 1990
11 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 Sovereign Camp, W. O .W. v. Hoomes · Brown v. United States · Crawford v. Roney · 25 Ala. App. 355 - Bauer v. State · 22 Ala. App. 34 - Edwards 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"An accountant who has examined certain books and schedules which have been introduced in evidence may state the results of his computations therefrom, [citation omitted]. In this state the rule is stated to be: `In the cases where it is impracticable or impossible for the court to make an examination of a large number of instruments, entries, or records, a competent witness may make such examination and present his conclusions thereon to the court.'"”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Giddens v. State“"The main insistence of appellant is that the court erred in permitting the witness Jamison to testify as to conclusions arrived at by him through calculations made from the books kept by defendant when he had not examined those books item by item, but in some instances had taken totals made by other auditors in reconciling balances."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Giddens v. State“pretend to testify as to the correctness of any item.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Giddens 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.