41 Ala. App. 612 - Sellers v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently March 2011
17 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 Lee v. State · 31 Ala. App. 91 - Lee v. State · Noble v. State · Lee v. State · McKenzie 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“tend to unduly multiply the issues and to divert the minds of the jury from the main issue.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“was permissible to establish a pattern of promiscuous sexual behavior with children.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"It was permissible to establish a pattern of promiscuous sexual behavior with children...; but the pregnancy resulting from that behavior multiplied the issues and tended to divert the minds of the jury from the main issue."”
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.