403 So. 2d 293 - Richardson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently June 2011
11 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 554 - Sprinkle v. State · Griffin v. State · 22 Ala. App. 373 - Holmes v. State · 19 Ala. App. 11 - Register v. State · 338 So. 2d 7 - Johnston v. City of Birmingham
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'The weight to be given to evidence is wholly within the province of the jury, and any invasion of this province by the court in its orders is error. . . .'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage““In Sprinkle v. State, Ala.Cr.App., 368 So.2d 554 , this court held: ‘The trial judge is more than a mere moderator and it is his duty to conduct an orderly trial and to make certain as far as possible that there is no misunderstanding of the testimony of witnesses. Thus he may ask any question which would be proper for the prosecutor or defense counsel to ask so long as he did not depart from a standard of fairness and impartiality.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wilson v. State“He may ask any question which either the state or the accused had the right to ask, or which it was their duty to ask, but which has been omitted, if the answer may be relevant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Moore 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.