40 Ala. App. 271 - Madden v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently April 1990 · most notably 546 So. 2d 1014 - White v. State (1989), Hale v. United States (1970)
2 federal appellate · 39 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 Burns v. State · 32 Ala. App. 408 - Kelley v. State · Moulton v. State · Blackwell v. State · Wray 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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is the clear right of the cross-examining party to elicit facts which weaken or qualify the case of the party examining in chief, or support the case of .the cross-examining party. One of its chief functions is to test the credibility of the deposing witness. 1 Thompson on Trials, 2nd Ed., Sec. 348. “In Alabama, the ‘so-called English Rule of cross-examination'prevails, that is, the cross-examination ’ is not limited to matters brought out on direct examination of a witness, but extends to all matters within the issues of the case. * * * ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““Out of court experiments are admissible where there is a substantial similarity between the essential conditions of the experiment and of the occurrence, and much is left to the discretion of the trial court in determining these similarities. Neelley v. State, 261 Ala. 290 , 74 So.2d 436 .” Madden v. State, 40 Ala.App. 271 , 112 So.2d 796 , cert. denied 269 Ala. 697 , 112 So.2d 800 .”
2 later decisions 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.