346 So. 2d 515 - Tate v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently November 2013 · most notably 440 So. 2d 1231 - Bighames v. State (1983), 678 So. 2d 284 - Ex Parte Weaver (1996)
25 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 29 Ala. App. 349 - Wilkins v. State · United States v. Sexton · Hinton v. State · Murphy v. State · 52 Ala. App. 490 - Murphy 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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The test of probative value or relevancy of a fact is whether it has any tendency to throw light upon the matter in issue even though such light may be weak and fall short of its intended demonstration.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“Evidence of flight is admissible even though it is weak or inconclusive or if several days have passed since the commission of the crime.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“A defendant's freedom of choice of counsel may not be manipulated to subvert the orderly procedure of court or to interfere with the fair administration of justice.”
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.