40 Ala. App. 45 - Orr v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
2 district · 86 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 88 later decisions — most recently October 2009 · most notably 46 Ala. App. 36 - Rueffert v. State (1970), Watson v. State (1980)
2 district · 86 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 Allen v. United States · Burton v. United States · Brasfield v. United States · State v. Smith · Jesson v. Noyes
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 88 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`Generally, timely corrective action by the [trial] court . . . is sufficient to cure the error resulting from improper conduct or remarks of counsel, unless such conduct or remarks are so prejudicial that they are obviously not cured, or unless the court's action is insufficient for such purpose'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The reason for our rule that the exception be specific is to allow the judge to correct his error, if any, and to do so his approximate language should be quoted to him.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“must be examined so that the suspect language is tested in the whole context of its setting.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.