32 Ala. App. 529 - Burch v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently June 1993 · most notably Fuller v. State (1959), Eaton v. State (1965)
26 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 Anderson v. State · Roan v. State · Blue v. State · Leith v. State · American Ry. Express Co. v. Reid
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"It clearly appears that the principle insistence of error . . . is predicated upon the ruling of the trial court in overruling the strenuous objection and exception of defendant to the argument of the solicitor in addressing the jury wherein he stated: 'Counsel for the defendant are trying to make monkeys out of this jury, and they are laughing up their sleeves at you.' "It clearly appears that the above quoted statement by the solicitor was wholly unwarranted as not being based upon any fact, incident, or testimony in the case. Its effect necessarily was harmful and prejudicial. The statement cast opprobrium upon the three reputable members of the bar who were, as the law requires, defending their client to the best of their ability, and in an orderly manner, and tended to place them and their client in a very unfavorable light before the jury. This of itself would necessitate a reversal of the judgment of conviction."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““Certainly, when the trial court, by its action in overruling the objection interposed, the court manifested its approval of the uttered words and gave its full endorsement thereof as being true. The statement, whether so intended or not, was insulting and otherwise objectionable and the court erred to a reversal in not taking prompt and decisive action to eradicate the statement instead of adding his approval thereof to the effect that such statement in the opinion of the court was true.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McCray 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.