Hillyer v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
9
cited by 9 later decisions
1
states following
May 1983
most recently cited
9 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Uptain · 45 Ala. App. 127 - Clayton v. State · Henry v. State · Walker v. State · 57 Ala. App. 470 - Johnson 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The continuance of a criminal prosecution due to the absence of defense witnesses or on the ground that sufficient time was not allowed to locate such persons, is a matter left to the trial court's discretion. The exercise of that discretion is revisable only upon positive showing *Page 444 of clear abuse. Henry v. State , 57 Ala. App. 383 , 328 So.2d 634 (1976); Clayton v. State , 45 Ala. App. 127 , 226 So.2d 671 (1969); Huskey v. State , 129 Ala. 94 , 29 So. 838 (1901)."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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