364 So. 2d 368 - Collins v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently February 2008
13 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 Smith v. Illinois · Rudolph v. Alabama · Noble v. State · 353 So. 2d 24 - McLaren v. State · Ex Parte McLaren
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The scope of cross-examination in a criminal proceeding is within the discretion of the trial judge and it is not reviewable except for the trial judge's prejudicial abuse of discretion. Jackson v. State , Ala. Cr. App., 353 So.2d 40 , cert. denied, 353 So.2d 48 (1977). McFerrin v. State , Ala. Cr. App., 339 So.2d 127 (1976). The right to a thorough and sifting cross-examination of a witness does not extend to matters that are collateral or immaterial and the trial judge is within his discretion in limiting questions which are of that nature. McLaren v. State , Ala. Cr. App. 353 So.2d 24 , cert. denied, 353 So.2d 35 (1977); McDonald v. State , Ala. Cr. App., 340 So.2d 103 (1976)".”
2 later decisions 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.