40 Ala. App. 475 - Dorch v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently July 2005 · most notably 42 Ala. App. 314 - Douglas v. State (1963), 401 So. 2d 266 - Palmer v. State (1981)
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 33 Ala. App. 316 - Smitherman v. State · 36 Ala. App. 701 - Busbee v. State · 37 Ala. App. 432 - Malone 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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Inadmissibility because of remoteness is confided largely to the trial judge’s discretion. McElroy, Law of Evidence in Alabama, § 21, pp. 6 and 7; 22 C.J.S. Criminal Law § 638.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Johnson v. State
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.