400 So. 2d 417 - Carpenter v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently February 2012 · most notably 494 So. 2d 124 - Magwood v. State (1985), Haney v. State (1991)
40 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 368 So. 2d 871 - Cumbo v. State · Skelton v. City of Birmingham · Kimbrough v. United States · Fletcher v. State · Nichols 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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'The fact that a photograph is gruesome and ghastly is no reason for excluding it, if relevant, even if the photograph may tend to inflame the jury. Carpenter v. State , 400 So.2d 417 (Ala.Cr.App.), cert. denied, 400 So.2d 427 (Ala. 1981).'”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“". . . As a general rule photographs are admissible in evidence if they tend to prove or disprove some disputed or material issue, to illustrate or elucidate some other relevant fact or evidence, to corroborate or disprove some other evidence offered or to be offered, and their admission is within the sound discretion of the trial judge. Fletcher v. State , 291 Ala. 67 , 277 So.2d 882 (1973); Thigpen v. State , 50 Ala. App. 176 , 277 So.2d 922 (1973))" ". . . Furthermore, photographs which depict the character and location of external wounds on the body of a deceased victim are admissible even though they are cumulative evidence based upon an undisputed matter. Hines v. State , Ala.Cr.App., 365 So.2d 320 , cert. denied, Ala., 365 So.2d 322 (1978); Ellenburg v. State , Ala.Cr.App., 353 So.2d 810 (1977). The fact that a photograph is gruesome and ghastly is no reason for excluding it, if relevant, even if the photograph may tend to inflame the jury. Richards v. State , Ala.Cr.App., 337 So.2d 171 , cert. denied, Ala., 337 So.2d 173 (1976)."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“A motion for new trial cannot take the place of an objection to the introduction of evidence. Pugh v. State , Ala. Cr. App., 355 So.2d 386 , cert. denied, Ala., 355 So.2d 392 (1977).”
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.