32 Ala. App. 383 - Wesley v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently December 2007 · most notably 336 Pa. Super. 22 - Dambacher by Dambacher v. Mallis (1985), 585 So. 2d 97 - Bankhead v. State (1990)
35 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 Clemons v. State · Rash v. State · 32 Ala. App. 273 - Warren v. State · 30 Ala. App. 103 - Pinkerton 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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Based upon analogous cases we declare the rule to be that when a photograph of a wound upon a dead body is offered in evidence it must be first shown by competent proof that the photograph is an accurate portrayal of the wound it is to depict, as of the time the wound was inflicted. This was not done in the case at bar and in our opinion the trial judge erred to a reversal in overruling the defendant's objection to the introduction of each of said photographs in evidence.”
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.