40 Ala. App. 600 - Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently March 1994 · most notably Watson v. State (1980), 47 Ala. App. 182 - Felton v. State (1971)
27 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 Nichols v. State · 38 Ala. App. 490 - Arthur v. State · 19 Ala. App. 592 - Parcus v. State · 19 Ala. App. 592 - Acker 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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The fact that evidence which is introduced in a case may be, if objected to, incompetent evidence under some one or more exclusionary rules of evidence does not destroy its probative effect, if it is admitted without objection.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Watson 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.