401 So. 2d 241 - Matthews v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently November 2012 · most notably 516 So. 2d 726 - Jackson v. State (1985), 420 So. 2d 812 - Harris v. State (1982)
48 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 Hall v. Cole · Bates v. United States · Irish Northern Aid Committee v. Attorney General of the United States · 48 Ala. App. 401 - Payne v. State · 369 So. 2d 46 - Flanagan 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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"`[A]n indictment must state the facts constituting the offense, in ordinary and concise language, in such manner as to enable a person of common understanding to know what is intended. It must likewise inform the accused not only of the nature of the offense, but also of the particular act or means by which it was committed.'"”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“"A trial court is not obliged to take witnesses out of turn merely because opposing counsel wants to examine them on voir dire at counsel's convenience. The trial judge is vested with discretion in the conduct of a trial, and appellate courts will not interfere unless there has been a clear abuse of that discretion." (Citations omitted.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[w]hen an in-court identification of the accused is shown to have a basis independent of any pre-trial identification, then it is properly admitted into evidence.”
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.