Hope v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently January 2001
14 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 Dennison v. State · Denson v. Realty Mortgage Co. · McDowell v. State · Whitson v. State · 378 So. 2d 1186 - Walls 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“he is not a hostile witness and the Court is not going to permit you to cross-examine this witness and get all that gobbley gook before the jury”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“your last question was [gobbledy]gook and, in the judgment of the Court, intended nothing but to confuse the jury”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““We have long held, however, that circumstantial evidence may afford satisfactory proof of the corpus delicti in a murder prosecution, and if facts are presented from which the jury may reasonably infer the crime has been committed, the question must be submitted to the jury. Kontos v. State, Ala.Cr.App., 363 So.2d 1025 (1978), and cases therein cited; McDowell v. State, 238 Ala. 101 , 198 So. 183 (1939).””
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.