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1979

Citation profile

10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
October 2015
most recently cited

10 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently October 2015

10 state decisions

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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 Birmingham Railway, Light & Power Co. v. Drennen · Miles v. State · Rainey v. State · 35 Ala. App. 119 - Gills v. State · Zemczonek v. McElroy

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

  1. “The sufficiency of the proof of the predicate of unavailability of an absent witness is addressed to the sound discretion of the trial judge.”
    5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. 521 So. 2d 1040 - Matkins v. State · 443 So. 2d 1289 - McGinnis v. State
  2. “"A sufficient predicate for a determination of unavailability is laid when the party offering the evidence shows that it exercised due diligence in seeking the presence of the witness at the trial to no avail. [Citations omitted].”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Nolen v. State · 521 So. 2d 1040 - Matkins v. State
  3. “"[W]antonness occurs . . . when one is conscious of his conduct, and conscious from his knowledge of existing circumstances and conditions, that injury will likely result from his conduct, and, with reckless indifference to consequences, he consciously and intentionally does some wrongful act or omits some known duty which produces injury."”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. 555 So. 2d 807 - Shirah 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.