40 Ala. App. 393 - Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently October 1982
10 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 Hall v. State · Drazen v. New Haven Taxicab Co. · Gillman v. State · 28 Ala. App. 273 - Welch v. State · 19 Ala. App. 239 - Green 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The witness J.A. Green, in answer to the question asked by defendant's counsel, `If there had been any pistol shot could you have heard it,' answered, `Yes, sir;' and while objection to the question after it was answered and sustained by the court, the answer was not excluded; and the ruling, if error, was without injury."”
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.