428 So. 2d 202 - Mickens v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
7
cited by 7 later decisions
2
states following
August 1993
most recently cited
1 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Matlock · 31 Ala. App. 21 - Wilson v. State · 416 So. 2d 1083 - Walker v. State · Wilson v. State · 400 So. 2d 427 - Williams 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 7 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.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McConico v. Alabama“rely on the adversary process and swear the witness without error if no objection is raised”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a reasonable tendency to prove or disprove some material fact in 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.