376 So. 2d 1112 - Ward v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently April 2009 · most notably 416 So. 2d 1083 - Walker v. State (1982), Brown v. State (1980)
50 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 43 Ala. App. 454 - Leonard v. State · 370 So. 2d 323 - Winnings v. State · 370 So. 2d 320 - Andrews v. State · 346 So. 2d 1177 - Sexton v. State · 344 So. 2d 1264 - Slinker 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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'Specific objections or motions are generally necessary before the ruling of the trial judge is subject to review, unless the ground is so obvious that the trial court's failure to act constitutes prejudicial error. Ward v. State , 376 So.2d 1112 (Ala.Crim.App. 1979), cert. denied, Ex parte Ward , 376 So.2d 1117 (Ala. 1979); Slinker v. State , 344 So.2d 1264 (Ala.Crim.App. 1977).' 409 So.2d at 989 . (Emphasis added.)”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage““Whether there is an accomplice witness and whether he has or has not been corroborated must first be put to the trial judge.... “Specific objections or motions are generally necessary before the ruling of the trial judge is subject to review....””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The trial court must be apprised of the basis for the objection with sufficient particularity to allow an informed decision to be made on the legal issue involved.”
2 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.