39 Ala. App. 148 - Powell v. King’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
October 1965
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Higginbotham v. State · Prater v. State · 30 Ala. App. 603 - Foremost Dairies, Inc. v. Andrews
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The 'falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus’ cant has become an incrustation ’that impedes navigation to the ends of .justice in that it so often causes the .jury to try the witnesses rather than the issues.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Williams v. Palmer
How this case has been treated — in progress
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