Fletcher v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
221 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 223 later decisions — most recently July 2015 · most notably 585 So. 2d 112 - Ex Parte Bankhead (1991), 494 So. 2d 124 - Magwood v. State (1985)
221 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 Aaron v. State · Knight v. State · Dyer v. State · Allen v. State · 36 Ala. App. 606 - Gurley 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 223 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Photographs are admissible into evidence if they tend to prove or disprove some disputed or material issue, to illustrate or elucidate some other relevant fact or evidence, to corroborate or disprove some other evidence offered or to be offered. . . Their admission is within the sound discretion of the trial judge. ...””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“A motion for a continuance in a criminal case is addressed to the sound discretion of the trial court, the exercise of which will not be disturbed unless clearly abused.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he trial judge is not required to be a robot without emotional reaction to happenings in his courtroom.”
2 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.