Chicarella v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently October 1977
9 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 Thompson v. State · 32 Ala. App. 44 - Lyons v. State · 34 Ala. App. 617 - Rogers 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““That a person has been previously arrested is not admissible in evidence, for the reason that an arrest may be unduly made, by biased or overzealous officers. It is only a prior conviction for a crime involving moral turpitude that may be shown, and this for the purpose of affecting a witness’ credibility. Lyons v. State, 32 Ala.App. 44 , 21 So.2d 339 ; Rogers v. State, 34 Ala.App. 617 , 42 So.2d 642 . “However, in the present case the statement by the officers that they had arrested the appellant on the dates mentioned was very incidental to the detailed facts recounted by the officers in their ensuing testimony. The fact that they had arrested appellant after such observations could not, we conclude, be deemed to have probably injured the appellant in her substantial rights. We are therefore unwilling to base a reversal of this judgment upon this erroneous ruling. Supreme Court Rules, rule 45, Code 1940, Tit. 7 Appendix.””
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.