372 So. 2d 387 - Taylor v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2005 · most notably Sumner v. Shuman (1987), 479 So. 2d 76 - Ex Parte Grayson (1985)
31 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 Clark v. State · Smith v. State · 348 So. 2d 784 - Plaskett v. Plaskett · Taylor v. State · 34 Ala. App. 481 - Rhodes 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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"`All of the authorities we have studied are agreed that to bring a prisoner before the bar of justice in handcuffs or shackles, where there is no pretense of necessity, is inconsistent with our notion of a fair trial, for it creates in the minds of the jury a prejudice which will likely deter them from deciding the prisoner's fate impartially....' "Not to be overlooked, is the distinction made in Clark [ v. State, 280 Ala. 493 , 195 So.2d 786 (1967)], between handcuffing a prisoner in taking him to and from the court and in keeping him in handcuffs while he is being tried, unless there is reasonable ground for belief that such restraint is necessary to prevent his escape or his rescue. "`Furthermore, it is not ground for a mistrial that an accused felon appear in the presence of the jury in handcuffs when such appearance is only a part of going to and from the courtroom. This is not the same as keeping an accused in shackles and handcuffs while being tried. Rhodes v. State, 34 Ala.App. 481 , 41 So.2d 623 [(1949)].' Evans v. State, Ala.Cr.App., 338 So.2d 1033 [1976], cert. denied, 348 So.2d 784 (1977)."”
5 later decisions 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.