331 So. 2d 828 - Proctor v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently July 2013
16 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 Furman v. Georgia · Green v. State · 30 Ala. App. 18 - Sowell v. State · 57 Ala. App. 310 - Fisher v. State · 54 Ala. App. 729 - Ex parte Bynum
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Where a witness' testimony is of major importance and is strongly adverse to the party against whom he has testified, the *Page 327 usual discretion of a trial court has a narrow range, and it generally is required to allow proof of any important fact indicating bias of the witness."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“does not entitle a party to repeat questions that have already been answered. Lloyd v. State , 53 Ala. App. 730 , 304 So.2d 232 [, cert. denied, 293 Ala. 410 , 304 So.2d 235 (Ala.), after remand, 339 So.2d 1058 (Ala.Cr.App.), cert. denied, 339 So.2d 1062 (Ala. 1976)].”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Tyson 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.