369 So. 2d 873 - Leonard v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently May 2010 · most notably Bowden v. State (1988), Brown v. State (1980)
54 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 55 Ala. App. 88 - Bass v. State · Campbell v. State · Ellis v. State · 49 Ala. App. 359 - Bryant v. State · Johnson 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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t is a general principle that, where a matter has been gone into by one party to a cause, the other party has the right to explain away anything, if he can, that may have been brought out to his detriment.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a]n indigent defendant is not entitled to a free transcript of the testimony taken at his preliminary hearing.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McKinney 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.