36 Ala. App. 646 - Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1953

Citation profile

cited by 20 later decisions

states following

July 1989

most recently cited

20 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently July 1989

20 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 32 Ala. App. 644 - Gettings v. State · Mosley v. State · Davis v. State · Stephens v. State · Neville 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

““In the early case of Harrison v. State, 78 Ala. 5 , the Supreme Court held in effect that the jury should receive the law from instructions by the court and that the presiding judge is clothed with discretionary power to require all legal propositions and principles to be presented to the court and not to the jury. See also, Williams v. State, 83 Ala. 68 , 3 So. 743 ; Ex parte Hill (City of Tuscaloosa v. Hill), 194 Ala. 559 , 69 So. 598 ; Davis v. State, 213 Ala. 541 , 105 So. 677 ; Birmingham Electric Co. v. Wood, 222 Ala. 103 , 130 So. 786 ; Louisville & N. R. Co. v. Atkinson, 20 Ala.App. 620 , 104 So. 835 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
e.g. 52 Ala. App. 31 - Keeby v. State
“than it does to the matter of attempting to gain the jury's favor or sympathy. Id. A high degree of”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
e.g. 548 So. 2d 459 - Acres v. State
“undue familiarity of counsel with the jurors while engaged in argument,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
e.g. 548 So. 2d 459 - Acres v. State

How this case has been treated — in progress

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