36 Ala. App. 507 - Littlefield v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
75 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions — most recently June 1997 · most notably 48 Ala. App. 401 - Payne v. State (1972), Mathis v. State (1966)
75 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 Collins v. State · Ellis v. Batson · Wyatt v. State · 36 Ala. App. 125 - Wyatt v. State · State v. Ware
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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"`The remark of the State's attorney was no more than a comment that a certain phase of the State's evidence was uncontradicted. Certainly, the State's attorney should be permitted to comment on the character of the evidence presented by the State and its strength. That certain evidence is uncontradicted tends to show its strength. Our statute does not abrogate the right of the State' counsel to comment on legitimate inferences in this regard.'"”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Welch v. State · Taylor v. State“"That a witness phrases his testimony in such terms as `I think,' `I believe,' etc., does not render such testimony inadmissible."”
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.