357 So. 2d 368 - Waters v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently June 2000 · most notably 387 So. 2d 280 - Gunn v. State (1980), 505 So. 2d 1067 - Donahoo v. State (1986)
33 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 Aguilar v. Texas · Brinegar v. United States · Ex Parte Alabama State Bar · Lash v. State · 55 Ala. App. 318 - Scott 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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Any fact which has causal connection or logical relation to another fact, so as to make the other fact either more or less probable, is competent or relevant.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“An affidavit which contains a mere conclusory affirmation of suspicion and belief, without statements of adequate support, is an inadequate basis for a magistrate's finding of probable cause. Murry [v. State , 48 Ala. App. 89 , 261 So.2d 922 (1972)].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"As affecting his credibility, a witness may be examined touching his conviction for a crime involving moral turpitude, and his answers may be contradicted by other evidence."”
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.