Rayburn v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently May 2009
14 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 Nash v. City of West Palm Beach · 38 Ala. App. 97 - Pierce v. State · Leonard v. State · 2 Mass. App. Ct. 399 - Moore · 332 So. 2d 396 - Goodman v. Director of Dept. of Public Safety
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“All appellate courts must, through research, obtain knowledge of their own state's legislative acts and judicial decisions in order to interpret statutes and apply the law to the facts. This is not `judicial notice,' as that term is used in the law of evidence, but may be more properly characterized as `judicial knowledge' gained through research. The determination of what is the forum state's law is a fundamental part of the judicial function.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““There is no justification, other than the notice requirements of Rule 44.1, for treating a question of a foreign state’s law any differently from a question of the laws of Alabama. Committee Comment, Rule 44.1, ARCP. See C. Wright & A. Miller, supra, § 2446. Determination of foreign law, like any other question of law before an appellate court, may be resolved by reference to the foreign state’s statutory and case law.””
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.