31 Ala. App. 239 - Kitchens v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently March 2008 · most notably White v. State (1975), Hicks v. State (1946)
30 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 31 Ala. App. 21 - Wilson v. State · 24 Ala. App. 249 - Reynolds v. State · Oliver v. State · 15 Ala. App. 245 - Mathis v. State · Harrington 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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he 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.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“... To qualify as an expert a witness does not have to be shown to be infallible or possessing the highest degree of skill.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“The bruise and fracture which I have described as being found on the left back of the head is the result of a blow, one or more, by some blunt object, to that area of the head. And that blow by the blunt instrument — a blow by a blunt instrument — caused a brain hemorrhage, and it resulted in the death of this man, in my opinion.”
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.