348 So. 2d 828 - Chatom v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently July 1999
1 federal appellate · 19 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 Stokley v. State · Harnage v. State · Martin v. State · State v. Howell · 337 So. 2d 321 - Patton v. City of Decatur
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * [R]eversal was due to the introduction into evidence of the atomic absorption test without a proper predicate.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"In deciding whether error is prejudicial, we may not merely determine that other evidence presented is sufficient for conviction and then disregard the illegal evidence. If this was the case, prosecutors could fill the record which all types of prejudicial hearsay, irrelevant and unpredicated material, and never suffer a reversal if in addition thereto they made out a prima facie case. "Juries in criminal cases do not function under the `equity rule' where it is assumed that they disregard illegal evidence and base their verdict solely on the legal evidence, as a judge sitting in equity does."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“"Appellate courts must reverse convictions where, over proper objection, evidence of a material and prejudicial nature to an accused is wrongfully admitted." Chatom v. State , 348 So.2d 828 , 837 (Ala.Cr.App. 1976), reversed on other grounds, 348 So.2d 838 (Ala. 1977).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.