383 So. 2d 601 - Ford v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1980

Citation profile

cited by 13 later decisions

states following

November 2005

most recently cited

13 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently November 2005

13 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 Nichols v. State · 40 Ala. App. 106 - Haynes v. State · 46 Ala. App. 542 - Stanley v. State · 51 Ala. App. 589 - Character v. State · C. F. Halstead Contractor, Inc. v. Lowery

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

“[i]t is within the discretion of the trial court to receive, in rebuttal, testimony which more properly should have been offered as part of the case in chief.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. 914 So. 2d 372 - Minor v. State · 538 So. 2d 815 - Strong v. State
“"The court may, at its discretion, at any time before the conclusion of the argument, when it appears to be necessary to the due administration of justice, allow a party to supply an omission in the testimony on such terms and under such limitations as the court may prescribe."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. 914 So. 2d 372 - Minor v. State · 418 So. 2d 927 - Bristow v. State
“The reasonableness of the explanation given by one in possession of recently stolen property is to be determined from all of the circumstances, and, if reasonable people can come to a different conclusion on the subject, the question of whether the explanation is reasonable is one to be determined by the jury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
e.g. Ashurst 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.