Forrest v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
August 2003
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 45 Ala. App. 250 - Hughes v. State · Dawson 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An appeal in a criminal case can only be taken from a judgment of conviction, in the absence of statutory authority to the contrary. Hughes v. State , 45 Ala. App. 250 , 228 So.2d 862 (1969).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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