352 So. 2d 925 - Kimbrough v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently March 2004
5 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 Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · McMann v. Richardson · Avery v. State of Alabama · United States v. Ash · White v. Ragen
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]ny appeal seeking a reversal of a conviction on the ground of denial of a continuance necessarily attacks the discretion exercised by the trial court since only a palpable abuse of discretion justifies reversal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Carter v. State“the care of another attorney who knows nothing of the case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Carter 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.