Lanier v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
December 1978
most recently cited
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 37 Ala. App. 603 - Sanford v. State · Morrison v. State · 40 Ala. App. 389 - Ferguson 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"A party to an action or proceeding, civil or criminal, may elicit from an opposing witness on cross-examination any fact tending to show bias against him or that the witness is interested in the outcome of the litigation. Sowell v. State , 30 Ala. App. 18 , 199 So. 900 ; Adams v. State , 30 Ala. App. 188 , 2 So.2d 468 ; Louisville N.R. Co. v. Courson , 234 Ala. 273 , 174 So. 474 . "Under this rule a witness for the prosecution in a criminal case may be compelled to disclose on cross-examination that he has instituted a civil action for damages against the accused based on the acts involved in the criminal case. Cabel v. State , 18 Ala. App. 557 , 93 So. 260 ; George v. State , 27 Ala. App. 196 , 169 So. 325 ; McCain v. City of Montgomery , 38 Ala. App. 568 , 92 So.2d 678 ; Morrison v. State , 267 Ala. 1 , 100 So.2d 744 . See also 98 C.J.S. Witnesses § 546, p. 488; Wharton's Criminal Evidence, 12th Ed., Sec. 909, p. 326."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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