38 Ala. App. 351 - Hunter v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently June 1996 · most notably 39 Ala. App. 29 - Beddow v. State (1956), Dockery v. State (1959)
42 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 Johnson v. State · Vernon v. State · Maund v. State · Godau v. State · Patton 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.
““If such countervailing evidence is not offered until after the preliminary question of the admissibility of the confession is passed on by the court, it goes to the jury on the credibility of the confession only. Lockett v. State, supra [ 218 Ala. 40 , 117 So. 457 ]; Cook v. State, supra [ 16 Ala.App. 390 , 78 So. 306 ].””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lloyd 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.