368 So. 2d 554 - Sprinkle v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
82 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 82 later decisions — most recently March 2011 · most notably Coral v. State (1992), Sprinkle v. State (1979)
82 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 Berger v. United States · Starnes v. Penrod Drilling Co. · Marina Mercante Nicaraguense, S. A. v. McAllister Bros. · Arant v. State · 17 Ala. App. 674 - Dennison 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 82 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"`The admission of rebuttal evidence is within the discretion of the trial judge. Crow v. State , 365 So.2d 1254 (Ala.Cr.App. 1978), cert. denied , 365 So.2d 1256 (Ala. 1979). "The State may, in the discretion of the trial court, introduce in rebuttal any competent evidence which explains or is a direct reply to or a contradiction of material evidence by the defendant." Sprinkle v. State , 368 So.2d 554 (Ala.Cr.App. 1978), writ quashed , 368 So.2d 565 (Ala. 1979) (emphasis added).'"”
9 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. RD v. State · R.D. v. State“The trial judge is more than a mere moderator and it is his duty to conduct an orderly trial and to make certain as far as possible that there is no misunderstanding of the testimony of witnesses. Thus he may ask any question which would be proper for the prosecutor or defense counsel to ask so long as he does not depart from a standard of fairness and impartiality.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Linson v. State · Moore v. State“That all persons shall, before conviction, be bailable by sufficient sureties, except for capital offenses, when the proof is evident or the presumption great; and that excessive bail shall not in any case be required.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Coral v. State · State v. Murphree
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.