362 So. 2d 1322 - Dickerson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
August 1984
most recently cited
1 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Freeman v. Hall · 31 Ala. App. 390 - Leach v. State · Sanders v. Scarvey · Leach v. State · Henry 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A continuance of a criminal case by reason of the absence of some defense witnesses is left to the sound discretion of the trial court and is not reversible on appeal unless clear abuse of discretion is positively shown.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Parker v. State“the record does not show that defendant ever unequivocally requested a continuance.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dickerson v. Alabama“should have been more definite than that shown on the record.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dickerson v. Alabama
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.