348 So. 2d 507 - Small v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently October 1997
18 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 United States v. Costello · Loyd v. State · Granberry v. Gilbert · 54 Ala. App. 659 - Langford v. State · National Casualty Co. v. Dunn
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The reversal of that conviction was based upon the conclusion of that unanimous court that the testimony of a police officer, pertaining to information furnished him through a telephone conversation with an informant, was inadmissible hearsay which could not be considered as evidence in the trial itself. We granted the writ to determine whether the Court of Criminal Appeals had followed the rules of Granberry v. Gilbert, 276 Ala. 486 , 163 So.2d 641 (1964) and Langford v. State, 54 Ala.App. 659 , 312 So.2d 65 (1975) which held that the General objection is insufficient to place the trial court in error when it overrules that objection. "The opinion of the Court of Criminal Appeals treated the allegations of the informant, as recited by the police officer, as rank hearsay, admissible in determining probable cause but inadmissible in the trial. But hearsay evidence is not inherently inadmissible unless it is patently inadmissible for any purpose, Loyd v. State, 279 Ala. 447 , 186 So.2d 731 (1966); U. S. v. Costello, 221 F.2d 668 (2nd Cir. 1955); Granberry v. Gilbert, supra."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Satterwhite 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.