387 So. 2d 879 - Ex Parte Dial’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently August 2017
16 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 35 Ala. App. 384 - Fiorella v. City of Birmingham · W. T. Ratliff Company, Inc. v. Purvis · Ganus v. Sullivan · 344 So. 2d 192 - Senn v. State · Alabama Fuel & Iron Co. v. Adams, Rowe & Norman
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he test for determining whether a witness is an accomplice is whether he or she could have been indicted and convicted for the offense charged, either as principal or accessory.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a] witness, be he expert or lay, cannot give his opinion when such constitutes a legal conclusion or the application of a legal definition.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"As stated in 20 Am.Jur., Sec. 799, supported by abundant citation of authority: 'It may be laid down as a general rule that a witness is never permitted to give his opinion on a question of law or upon matters which involve a question of law.' This rule is applicable to both expert and non-expert witnesses. See also Alabama Fuel Iron Co. v. Adams, Rowe Norman , 216 Ala. 403 , 113 So. 265 . The reason for such rule is that conclusions of law are exclusively for the courts."”
1 later decision 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.