398 So. 2d 369 - Stewart v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently June 2014 · most notably 420 So. 2d 812 - Harris v. State (1982), 414 So. 2d 1014 - Jackson v. State (1982)
44 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · 368 So. 2d 871 - Cumbo v. State · Fletcher v. State · Garrett v. State · 387 So. 2d 280 - Gunn v. State
Most-quoted passages
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“In the absence of a ruling, a request for a ruling or an objection to the court's failure to rule, there is nothing preserved for appellate review.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““The credibility of a witness may be attacked by showing mental incapacity, but only if the incapacity exists at the time the witness testifies, or existed at the time of his observation of the incident about which he testifies. Stewart v. State, 398 So.2d 369 (Ala.Crim.App. 1981), cert. denied, 398 So.2d 376 (Ala. 1981).””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“We recognize the general rule in Alabama to be that the results of polygraph or lie detector tests are not admissible. Flurry v. State, 52 Ala.App. 64 , 289 So.2d 632 [Ala.Crim.App.1973]; Wilcutt v. State, 41 Ala.App. 25 , 123 So.2d 193 [1960].”
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.