36 Ala. App. 125 - Wyatt v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1951

Citation profile

cited by 33 later decisions

states following

November 2002

most recently cited

33 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently November 2002 · most notably 36 Ala. App. 507 - Littlefield v. State (1952), 52 Ala. App. 685 - State Ex Rel. Baxley v. Strawbridge (1974)

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 Postal Tel. Cable Co. v. Minderhout · Peterson v. State · Campbell v. Beyers · Wynn v. McCraney · Brown v. Woolverton

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.

““The true test is the state of the juror’s mind or feeling at the time he is selected and qualified on the venire. Even though he may previously have expressed an opinion, * * * yet if he makes known that as a juror he would be uninfluenced, and that his verdict would be governed solely by the evidence and instructions of the court, he is competent to serve as a juror. Peterson v. State, 227 Ala. 361 , 150 So. 156 ; certiorari denied 291 U.S. 661 , 54 S.Ct. 439 , 78 L.Ed. 1053 ; Jones v. State, 120 Ala. 303 , 25 So. 204 ; Blevins v. State, 20 Ala.App. 229 , 101 So. 478 , certiorari denied Ex parte Blevins, 211 Ala. 615 , 101 So. 482 ; Long v. State, 86 Ala. 36 , 5 So. 443 ; Funderburk v. State, 145 Ala. 661 , 39 So. 672 ; Hawkins v. State, 29 Ala.App. 221 , 195 So. 762 , certiorari denied 239 Ala. 532 , 195 So. 765 .””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. Cook v. State · 37 Ala. App. 57 - Huddleston v. State
“"[W]here a common law ground is involved, there must either be some matter which imports absolute bias or favor and leaves nothing for the discretion of the court or a situation which presents a mixed question of law and fact to be determined by the trial court in its sound discretion."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. Tomlin v. State · Pardue v. State
““While hypertechnically, the proper appellation of a county governing body is ‘Court of County Commissioners’ . . . “[I]t is our conclusion that the warrant as drawn in this case, unless a mechanical and hypertechnical mode of reasoning be resorted to, was drawn with sufficient substantial compliance to statutory regulation, possessed apparent legal efficacy, and carried with it a possibility of operating to cause injury.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
e.g. Jones v. State

How this case has been treated — in progress

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