Yelton v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1974

Citation profile

cited by 86 later decisions

states following

November 2007

most recently cited

86 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 86 later decisions — most recently November 2007 · most notably 587 So. 2d 1072 - Parker v. State (1991), 474 So. 2d 168 - Bush v. City of Troy (1985)

86 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 Benton v. State · Wilbanks v. State · 15 Ala. App. 331 - Coplon v. State · Hardie v. State · Alston 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 86 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

“The rule is that testimony apparently illegal upon admission may be rendered prejudicially innocuous by subsequent legal testimony to the same effect or from which the same facts can be inferred.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. 515 So. 2d 140 - Powell v. State · 926 So. 2d 315 - Edwards v. Valentine
“A defendant cannot complain of the admission of improper evidence when he himself has testified to the same facts.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. 501 So. 2d 496 - McCall v. State · 469 So. 2d 690 - Crook v. State
““The trial court did not err in admitting the photostatic copy of the fingerprint card in evidence. The Court of Criminal Appeals in Neal v. State, 47 Ala.App. 68 , 250 So.2d 605 , cert. den. 287 Ala. 738 , 250 So.2d 608 , approved the admission in evidence of a ‘photo-copy of the micro film of the original invoice’ over several grounds of objection, one of which was that it was ‘not the highest and best evidence.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. Webster v. State

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.