27 Ala. App. 409 - Witt v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently August 1979 · most notably 32 Ala. App. 408 - Kelley v. State (1946), Johnson v. State (1961)
27 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 24 Ala. App. 233 - Arrington v. State · 21 Ala. App. 378 - Humber v. State · 26 Ala. App. 465 - Witt 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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * Counsel in the presentation of their cases must be allowed a wide range in exhortations to the jury to discharge the duties resting upon them, in such manner as, not only to punish crime, but to protect the public from like offenses, and as an example to deter others from committing like offenses.””
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.