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351 So. 2d 689 - McHellen v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1977

Citation profile

25
cited by 25 later decisions
1
states following
December 1996
most recently cited

24 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently December 1996 · most notably 366 So. 2d 740 - Temple v. State (1978), 408 So. 2d 173 - Beasley v. State (1981)

24 state decisions

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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 Young v. State · 46 Ala. App. 722 - Parks v. State · 46 Ala. App. 36 - Rueffert v. State · 49 Ala. App. 654 - Daniels v. State · Brantley 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.

  1. “"We think the evidence sufficiently supported an inference for the jury's consideration that appellant knew the controlled substance was in his house: (a) Appellant was home when the search was made and had lived at such address since 1938. (b) Even though appellant testified that he rented one bedroom to a young lady, the heroin was found in the kitchen area, a neutral part of the house. (c) The heroin was found underneath a loose piece of linoleum tile in front of a refrigerator, a place which is not easily unnoticed."”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Grissom v. State · 366 So. 2d 740 - Temple v. State
  2. “Since the search warrant appears nowhere in the record, and was not introduced by either the State or the defense, nothing is presented to this Court for review.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Conner 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.