397 So. 2d 203 - Hurst v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
63 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently November 2010 · most notably 585 So. 2d 97 - Bankhead v. State (1990), 580 So. 2d 11 - Stephens v. State (1990)
63 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 Fletcher v. State · Fulghum v. State · 55 Ala. App. 88 - Bass v. State · Garrett v. State · 50 Ala. App. 176 - Thigpen 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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Any fact which has causal connection or logical relation to another fact, so as to make the other fact either more or less probable, is competent or relevant.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he trial judge can best determine when discussion by counsel is legitimate and when it degenerates into abuse. Garrett v. State, 268 Ala. 299 , 105 So.2d 541 (1958); Hurst v. State, 397 So.2d 203 (Ala.Crim.App.), cert. denied, 397 So.2d 208 (Ala.1981).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“(R. 139-140.) Moreover, the court went on to state that defense counsel was putting on the witness in the hopes that the jury would draw an inference of Alexander's guilt because he asserted his Fifth Amendment right, thereby hoping that the jury would find the appellant innocent. Clearly, the trial court acted within its discretion in disallowing Alexander's testimony. Here, the appellant was not deprived of any witness on his behalf because this witness was going to assert his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination, and defense counsel knew this.”
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.