39 Ala. App. 575 - Dixon v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently November 1984 · most notably State v. Burnett (1964), 42 Ala. App. 439 - Green v. State (1964)
33 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 Parsons v. State · 34 Ala. App. 137 - De Graaf v. State · Kelly v. State · 36 Ala. App. 507 - Littlefield v. State · Welch 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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The court sustained the objection on the ground that it made no difference whether or not the source was confidential. The court’s ruling was not an abuse of discretion. The disclosure of the identity of an informer (as distinguished from a participating decoy) is not ordinarily in the public interest save where needful to show the innocence of the accused. Parsons v. State, 251 Ala. 467 , 38 So.2d 209 ; Underhill, Crim. Evid., 5th Ed., § 327; Brown v. State, 135 Tex.Cr.R. 394 , 120 S.W.2d 1057 ; Hudson v. State, 156 Tex.Cr.R. 612 , 243 S.W.2d 841 , 245 S.W.2d 259 .” (Emphasis added)”
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.