Embrey v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
129 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 129 later decisions — most recently March 2004 · most notably 534 So. 2d 329 - Hooks v. State (1987), 52 Ala. App. 260 - Barnett v. State (1974)
129 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · United States v. Wade · Stovall v. Denno · Jackson v. Denno · Witherspoon v. Illinois
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 129 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"If counsel wishes to preserve for review any ruling of the trial court made during closing argument, he must object and point out to the Court that portion of the argument to which he objects and when that is done it is made a part of the record for appellate review."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Objection to a question must be made as soon as the question is stated.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““If the Black case is authority for the-proposition that it is a reversible error for a prosecuting attorney in his argument to simply remind the jury of the prevalence of crime and that the crime rate is increasing, when those situations are known to the jury as a matter of common knowledge, then we decline to follow it.””
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.