417 So. 2d 241 - Rogers v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently December 2009 · most notably 585 So. 2d 112 - Ex Parte Bankhead (1991), 516 So. 2d 726 - Jackson v. State (1985)
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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Brady v. State of Maryland · United States v. Agurs · North Carolina v. Butler · Moore v. Illinois
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.
“Moreover, the trial court may within its discretion refuse a charge which is not applicable to the evidence presented at trial even though said charge is arguably a correct statement of law. Taylor v. State , Ala.Cr.App. [1981], 408 So.2d 551 , cert. denied, Ala., 408 So.2d 555 (1982).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"Although the charge requested by the defendant may be a correct statement of the law, the law is well settled in Alabama that it is not reversible error to refuse a charge which merely states an abstract principle of law without containing instructions as to the effect such doctrine has on the issues involved in the case."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jones v. State“[t]he determination of the competency of a witness is within the sound discretion of the trial court, and such discretion is of a well nigh irrevisable nature.”
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.