Myers v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
August 1991
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Scott v. State · 40 Ala. App. 77 - Hutcherson v. State · Singley v. State · Ex Parte State · 50 Ala. App. 626 - Peeples 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The good character of defendant cannot be proven by specific acts of merit. Scott v. State, 211 Ala. 270 , 100 So. 211 (7). “Neither can the defendant prove his own good reputation for associating with other children and not abusing them. Moss v. State, 209 Ala. 3 , 96 So. 450 ; Singley v. State, 256 Ala. 56 , 53 So.2d 729 (3, 4); Lynn v. State, 21 Ala.App. 29 , 104 So. 870 . McElroy’s Alabama Evidence, 27.01(3).””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Abney v. State
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.