35 Ala. App. 179 - Nelson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently June 1992 · most notably Muir v. State (1986), 369 So. 2d 873 - Leonard v. State (1979)
29 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Pippin v. State · Lakey v. State · Gillman v. State · Fidelity-Phenix Fire Ins. Co. of New York v. Murphy · Moore 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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"`Anything done contrary to justices, honesty, principle, or good morals; an act of baseness, vileness, or depravity in the private and social duties which a man owes to his fellow man, or to society in general, contrary to the accepted and customary'. Moral turpitude implies something immoral in itself regardless of the fact whether it is punishable by law. The doing of the act and not its prohibition by statute fixes the turpitude." ( 44 So.2d at page 805 )”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The court also correctly sustained the State’s objections to questions propounded to the appellant by his counsel seeking to show explanatory details of the offense for which appellant was convicted by the court martial. Mayo v. State, 32 Ala.App. 264 , 24 So.2d 769 ; Latikos v. State, 17 Ala.App. 655 , 88 So. 47 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Faircloth v. State“A witness may be impeached by drawing out of him on cross-examination that he has been guilty of acts of moral turpitude, and especially of crime, which reflects upon his integrity or credibility as a witness.”
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.