42 Ala. App. 660 - Rodgers v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently December 1990
2 federal appellate · 15 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 Escobedo v. Illinois · Jackson v. Denno · Culombe v. Connecticut · Hopt v. People of the Territory of Utah · Fikes v. State of Alabama
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.
“The court must, by examination, decide upon the capacity of one alleged to be incompetent from idiocy, lunacy, insanity, drunkenness or infancy.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent““McElroy, Evidence (2d Ed.), § 94.-02(3), concludes that the trial judge’s observation vis a vis of a child proposed as a witness confers in him a discretion necessarily his because the appellate court is without benefit of this opportunity.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent““Persons who have not the use of reason, as idiots, lunatics during lunacy, and children who do not understand the nature of an oath, are imcompetent witnesses.””
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.