374 So. 2d 910 - Commander v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1978

Citation profile

cited by 33 later decisions

states following

December 2003

most recently cited

33 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently December 2003 · most notably 401 So. 2d 191 - Nobis v. State (1981), 425 So. 2d 500 - Gwin v. State (1982)

33 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 Roberson v. State · Berness v. State · Coats v. State · 56 Ala. App. 704 - English v. State · 49 So. 2d 798 - Richard v. Tomlinson

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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

“"Nowhere is it shown that duly adopted methods or regulations of the State Board of Health were followed in administering the test. The trial court therefore had before it no certified methods promulgated by the Board of Health for the administration of the test and consequently was unable to ascertain standards against which the evidence could be measured."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. Webb v. State · 459 So. 2d 1008 - Childress v. City of Huntsville
“"However, there was no testimony or proof that the manner in which the test was conducted was performed according to methods approved by the state board of health. The fact that the test operator was an expert or was duly certified provides no basis for any presumption that the test was correctly performed." (Emphasis in original.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. 459 So. 2d 1008 - Childress v. City of Huntsville · 533 So. 2d 652 - Vizzina v. City of Birmingham
“"[t]here is no rebuttable presumption that a duly licensed operator knew and used methods and techniques approved by the state board of health in administering the test. Commander v. State , 374 So.2d 910 [Ala.Cr.App.] (1978)."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. Webb v. State · 442 So. 2d 164 - Moore 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.