30 Ala. App. 18 - Sowell v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
72 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently November 1996 · most notably Green v. State (1953), Nichols v. State (1964)
72 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 Louisville N. R. Co. v. Martin · Adler v. Miller · Louisville N. R. Co. v. Courson · 17 Ala. App. 301 - Byrd v. State · Fincher 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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Upon further cross-examination by the defendant’s counsel, the daughter of deceased (wife of defendant) was asked, by way of impeachment of her testimony upon trial as to the fatal difficulty, if she had not made previous contradictory statements, such as, ‘Daddy didn’t have any business down there jumping on Cecil like he did.’ Such a question and others of like character were, if for no other purpose, proper to test the credibility of said witness regarding her testimony on direct examination, wherein she asserted the faultless conduct of her father, the deceased, in the fatal affray.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sparks v. State““We are cognizant of the principle that the range of cross-examination is within the discretion of the trial court and unless it clearly appears that error intervened to the substantial injury of the adverse party the ruling at nisi prius will not be disturbed upon appeal. * * * ””
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.