346 So. 2d 1177 - Sexton v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently September 1999 · most notably 494 So. 2d 124 - Magwood v. State (1985), Watson v. State (1980)
60 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 38 Ala. App. 64 - Wright v. State · Fikes v. State · Dennison v. State · Wright v. State · Flannagin 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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To warrant the reception of an object in evidence against an objection that an unbroken chain of custody has not been shown, it is not necessary that it be proved to an absolute certainty, but only to a reasonable probability, that the object is the same as, and not substantially different from, the object as it existed at the commencement of the chain.”
25 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Baynes v. State · Neal 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.