41 Ala. App. 669 - McGhee v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently April 1998 · most notably 575 So. 2d 1165 - Arthur v. State (1990), 610 So. 2d 1181 - Ex Parte Parker (1992)
30 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 39 Ala. App. 676 - Kennedy v. State · Strickland v. State · 19 Ala. App. 299 - Woods v. State · 21 Ala. App. 352 - Lowery v. State · 40 Ala. App. 174 - Lane 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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Counsel may argue to the jury the credibility of witnesses as long as he confines his argument to the evidence and the fair inferences to be drawn therefrom, but he may not go beyond the evidence and state as fact his personal knowledge as to the truthfulness or untruthfulness of the testimony of a witness.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“'I know this man of God told you the truth, he is on God's side, gentlemen, and God is on his,'”
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.