McClary v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
88 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 88 later decisions — most recently March 1998 · most notably 401 So. 2d 191 - Nobis v. State (1981), 375 So. 2d 1257 - Williams v. State (1979)
88 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 Cox v. State · Stephens v. State · Alabama Power Company v. Smith · 45 Ala. App. 56 - Padgett v. State · 32 Ala. App. 365 - Pate 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 88 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“". . . that where the argument of one's counsel passes beyond the bounds of legal propriety, it is the duty of opposing counsel to object specifically, and point out substantially the language deemed objectionable; and the record should disclose with reasonable certainty what was said in the court below , in order that the appellate court may review it. . . ." (Emphasis added.)”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"If one counsel's argument passes beyond the bounds of legal propriety in the judgment of the other counsel, it is the duty of the latter to object specifically, and point out substantially the language deemed objectionable. Only when this is done can an appellate court know with reasonable certainty what was said in the court below."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"The remarks of the solicitor to which exceptions were reserved are too fragmentary to present the questions insisted upon ... in order for this court to intelligently pass upon the question, enough of the remarks of the solicitor must be incorporated in the record to inform the court as to what was really said, and not mere disjointed sentences of the solicitor's speech." (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.