40 Ala. App. 613 - White v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently November 1986
24 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 Mason v. State · Crawford v. State · Spicer v. State · 38 Ala. App. 64 - Wright v. State · Ellis 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““For the purpose of attacking his credibility, a witness * * * may be examined on cross-examination as to a former conviction of a crime involving moral turpitude, and if denied, such conviction may be proven by the court record of conviction or a properly certified copy thereof, but it cannot be established by oral testimony. Title 7, Secs. 434, 435, Code of Ala. 1940; Love v. State, 36 Ala.App. 693 , 63 So.2d 285 ; Ellis v. State, 244 Ala. 79 , 11 So.2d 861 ; Wright v. State, 38 Ala.App. 64 , 79 So.2d 66 , certiorari denied 262 Ala. 420 , 79 So.2d 74 .””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“The motive attributed to the accused must have some legal or logical relation to the act charged according to known rules and principles of human conduct.”
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.