377 So. 2d 1102 - Murrell v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1979

Citation profile

cited by 42 later decisions

states following

September 2017

most recently cited

41 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently September 2017 · most notably 587 So. 2d 1072 - Parker v. State (1991), 425 So. 2d 500 - Gwin v. State (1982)

41 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 Grivetti v. Scott · Aldridge v. State · Walker v. State · 31 Ala. App. 77 - Kabase v. State · 346 So. 2d 1177 - Sexton 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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

“It would be a sad commentary upon the vitality of the judicial process if an accused could render it impotent by his own choice.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. Maddox v. State · Rieber v. State
“" 'To warrant the reception of an object in evidence against an objection than an unbroken chain of custody has not been shown, it is not necessary that it be proved to an absolute certainty but only to a reasonable probability, that the object is the same as, and not substantially different from, the object as it existed at the commencement of the chain.' "”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. Mahan v. State · 600 So. 2d 336 - Bartlett v. State
“'A witness may testify to his opinion if it is a collective fact or a shorthand rendition of fact. This variety is most commonly referred to as the collective fact exception and arises when the facts observed by the witness are so many or so inexpressible that he is allowed to give the jury his opinion. His opinion is conceived of as being a shorthand way of giving the facts and, consequently does not constitute a violation of the opinion evidence rule.' C. Gamble, McElroy's Alabama Evidence , Section 127.01(3) Variety No. 7 (3rd ed. 1977).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. Lewis v. State · 409 So. 2d 969 - Wyrick 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.