371 So. 2d 75 - Donahoo v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently December 1998
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 Leith v. State · 38 Ala. App. 299 - Vinet v. State · 365 So. 2d 1010 - Fuller v. State · Satterfield v. State · 26 Ala. App. 331 - Roberts 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"No communication, whatever, should take place between the judge and the jury after the cause has been submitted to them, unless in open court with all the parties and their attorneys present. The sanctity of the jury room must remain inviolate, and it is the trial judge's responsibility to maintain that sanctity. Anything less is an abdication of his judicial responsibility."”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“All conversation between jurors and officers of the court does not amount to misconduct per se, and a showing of such communication does not raise the presumption that it improperly influenced the jury.”
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.