Godwin v. Jerkins’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
18
cited by 18 later decisions
2
states following
May 1989
most recently cited
18 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on INTERNATIONAL UNION, ETC. v. Russell · Thompson v. Magic City Trucking Service · Jack Cole, Inc. v. Walker · Callahan v. Booth · Smart v. Wambles
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"[T]he rule of this state is to the effect that the determination of the sufficiency of preliminary proofs offered to identify pictures and to show that such pictures accurately represent what they purport is a matter within the sound discretion of the trial court and his decision on sufficiency of the predicate so laid will not be reviewed by an appellate court except for abuse. It is a matter for the trial court in the exercise of his sound discretion to determine whether a photograph offered in evidence will aid the jury or tend to confuse or prejudice the jury." Godwin v. Jerkins , 282 Ala. 11 , 12 , 208 So.2d 210 (1968).”
3 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.