Woodard v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently September 2010
16 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 Starnes v. Penrod Drilling Co. · 358 So. 2d 782 - Van Antwerp v. State · Ex Parte Van Antwerp · 50 Ala. App. 707 - Cobb v. State · 360 So. 2d 358 - Waters 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The decision on a motion for new trial rests largely within the sound discretion *Page 354 of the trial court and, in reviewing such decision, the Court of Criminal Appeals will indulge every presumption in favor of the correctness thereof. Ala.Dig. Crim.Law , § 911.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]he fact that [the deputy coroner] used [the toxicologist's] autopsy report in conjunction with his own personal observations does not render his testimony [as to the cause of death] inadmissible”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“If, on cross-examination, it is discovered that a witness based his decision on hearsay evidence, then the proper remedy is a motion to exclude that testimony.”
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.