31 Ala. App. 21 - Wilson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 122 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 127 later decisions — most recently July 1984 · most notably Blue v. State (1944), Reedy v. State (1945)
2 federal appellate · 122 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 Birmingham Baptist Hospital, Inc. v. Blackwell · Grissett v. State · Eliasberg Bros. Mercantile Co. v. Grimes · Boyette v. Bradley · Lester v. Jacobs
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 127 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The rule seems to be that ‘it is improper to inquire into the general character of the deceased for peace and quiet without coupling such proof with proof of whether or not he was a violent, dangerous, bloodthirsty, turbulent man, even where there was some evidence of self-defense on part of defendant.’ Tribble v. State, 145 Ala. 23 , Headnote 1, 40 So. 938, 939 ; King v. State, 17 Ala.App. 381 , 85 So. 876 ; Dyson v. State, 28 Ala.App. 549 , 189 So. 784 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The criterion for admission of expert testimony is that the witness, by study, practice, experience or observation as to the particular subject, should have acquired a knowledge beyond that of ordinary witnesses. 6 Ala.Dig., Criminal Law, ®=3478 * *. “And whether a witness is shown to possess the requisite qualifications of an expert is a preliminary question largely within the discretion of the court.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““If the photographs had a reasonable tendency to prove or disprove some material fact in issue, or shed some light upon some material inquiry, they were admissible even though they also might have tended to inflame the minds of the jury.””
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.