34 Ala. App. 114 - Little v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently May 1978
13 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 Edwards v. State · Wilson v. State · Batson v. State Ex Rel. Davis · Davis v. State · 31 Ala. App. 423 - Shikles 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is a disgrace that Mr. Hutson, Mr. Almon, Mr. Russell and Mr. Pettus [defense counsel] would come in and try to get the jury to believe any evidence such as that.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““It is true that the word ‘disgrace’ may imply- disfavor, shame, contumely, or even dishonor. It is also equally true that the word is often used in a much less odious implication. It is employed to mean lack of grace, unbecomingness, inharmony, and ridiculousness. Expressions must be accepted in keeping with their common usage and the evident intent of the spokesman. The conditions and circumstances under which they are uttered and their relation to the subject matter to which they refer will largely fix the intent. “We are unable to agree that the jury •was forced to accept the statement as an implication or charge of misconduct against the appellant’s attorneys. A contrary view would be a strained and unauthorized construction of the assertion. * * * ” (Italics added.)”
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.