361 So. 2d 1189 - Taylor v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently August 2005
8 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 Aaron v. State · Cox v. State · 50 Ala. App. 465 - McNair v. State · Ex parte State ex rel. Attorney General · Seals 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The sheets were properly identified as coming from the bed of the appellant where the rape occurred, and they tended to show the commission of the crime and the manner in which it was committed because they contained blood and semen. The fact that the toxicologist could not match the blood to that of the prosecutrix went to the credibility of the evidence and not its admissibility.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Under the appellant's own confession he is guilty of the offense charged, Huggins v. State , 41 Ala. App. 548 , 142 So.2d 915 , cert. denied, 273 Ala. 708 , 142 So.2d 918 (Ala. 1962) consent being no defense to a prosecution under our carnal knowledge statute. Powell v. State , 53 Ala. App. 30 , 297 So.2d 163 (1974).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“if the evidence is fairly capable of supporting the inference that the rules of freedom and voluntariness were observed, the trial court's ruling as to voluntariness of a confession need only be supported by substantial evidence and not to a moral certainty.”
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.