416 So. 2d 1083 - Walker v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
81 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 82 later decisions — most recently December 2015 · most notably 515 So. 2d 55 - Kinder v. State (1986), 548 So. 2d 562 - Ex Parte Hinton (1989)
81 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 Fikes v. State of Alabama · 368 So. 2d 871 - Cumbo v. State · Skelton v. City of Birmingham · Young v. State · Fletcher 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 82 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The weight of the evidence, the credibility of the witnesses, and inferences to be drawn from the evidence, where susceptible of more than one rational conclusion, are for the jury alone.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Lyle v. State · Lamar v. State“[t]he fact that a photograph is gruesome and ghastly is no reason for excluding it, if *Page 1306 relevant, even if the photograph may tend to inflame the jury.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“A trial court should not allow a state witness to be `recalled' by the defense during its case-in-chief for purposes of further cross-examination and impeachment on matters to which the witness had previously testified.”
3 later decisions 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.