409 So. 2d 987 - Lawrence v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1982

Citation profile

cited by 37 later decisions

states following

February 2017

most recently cited

37 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently February 2017 · most notably 431 So. 2d 574 - Trawick v. State (1983), 438 So. 2d 336 - Coulter v. State (1982)

37 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 Nichols v. State · McKee v. State · 54 Ala. App. 254 - Hurst v. State · Palmore v. State · 344 So. 2d 1264 - Slinker 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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

“'Specific objections or motions are generally necessary before the ruling of the trial judge is subject to review, unless the ground is so obvious that the trial court's failure to act constitutes prejudicial error. Ward v. State , 376 So.2d 1112 (Ala.Crim.App. 1979), cert. denied, Ex parte Ward , 376 So.2d 1117 (Ala. 1979); Slinker v. State , 344 So.2d 1264 (Ala.Crim.App. 1977).' 409 So.2d at 989 . (Emphasis added.)”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. Jefferson v. State · Ex Parte Parks
“"The admissibility of photographs into evidence is within the purview of the *Page 106 trial court and will be reviewed only to determine whether there has been an abuse of discretion. Carpenter v. State , 400 So.2d 417 (Ala.Cr.App.), cert. denied, 400 So.2d 427 (Ala. 1981); Hurst v. State , 397 So.2d 203 (Ala.Cr.App.), cert. denied, 397 So.2d 208 (Ala. 1981). In addition, the court, in Lawrence v. State , 409 So.2d 987 , 990 (Ala.Cr.App. 1982), stated: 'The evidentiary rule in this state favors the admission of photographs and affords the trial court a wide and liberal attitude in the admission of photographs illustrative of a criminal transaction.' (citations omitted). The court in Lawrence , supra, also stated that [t]he fact that a photograph has very little probative value does not prevent its admission in evidence where the photograph will tend to shed light on, strengthen or illustrate the truth of other testimony . . ." (citations omitted)”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. Boyle v. State · Ray v. State
“Prejudicial error may not be predicated on admission of evidence which has been admitted without objection or motion to exclude at some other stage of trial. . . . The admission of incompetent evidence is harmless error where the fact to which such evidence relates is otherwise established by competent evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
e.g. 484 So. 2d 1206 - Bates v. State

How this case has been treated — in progress

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