356 So. 2d 1224 - Hurst v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently October 2009
22 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 Blackburn v. Alabama · Parsons v. State · Boyle v. State · Ashdown v. Utah · Parrish 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The traditional rule in this country has been that an expert, in giving his opinion, cannot rely upon the opinion of others. The basis for this rule of exclusion has been that such testimony is based upon what others have said, and, consequently, constitutes hearsay. In light of this rule a physician-witness' testimony to his opinion with respect to the condition of his patient may not be supported by testimony by such witness that certain opinions or reports, including reports of radiologists, concerning the patient had been made to him by other physicians." C. Gamble, McElroy's Alabama Evidence , Section 110.01 (3) (3rd ed. 1977).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“(W)itnesses, including medical witnesses, cannot testify to facts of which their knowledge is derived from the unsworn statements of others.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"There is no legal standard by which the prejudicial qualities of improper remarks of the District Attorney in a trial of a case can be judged, each case must be determined on its own merits. Binion v. State, [ 57 Ala.App. 234 ,] 327 So.2d 729 [(1975), cert. denied, 295 Ala. 391 , 327 So.2d 732 (Ala.1976)]. Counsel for both the state and the defendant are allowed a wide latitude in drawing their deductions from evidence in argument to the jury. Summers v. State, ... 348 So.2d 1126 [(Ala.Cr.App.1977), cert. denied, 348 So.2d 1136 (Ala.1977), cert. denied, 434 U.S. 1070 , 98 S.Ct. 1253 , 55 L.Ed.2d 773 (1978)].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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