430 So. 2d 891 - Wilson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently November 2005
6 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 49 Ala. App. 130 - Padgett v. State · 15 Ala. App. 245 - Mathis v. State · Padgett v. State · Crawford v. State · Pace 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“". . . [T]he rule stated in Crawford v. State , 262 Ala. 191 , 192 , 78 So.2d 291 (1955), and Padgett v. State , 49 Ala. App. 130 , 136 , 269 So.2d 147 , cert. denied, 289 Ala. 749 , 269 So.2d 154 (1972)" indicates: "This rule states that in a murder prosecution it is not permissible for a witness, including a medical expert, to draw conclusions for the jury as to the relative positions of the parties at the time of the shooting from a mere examination of the wounds. It is not competent for a witness, expert or nonexpert, to draw inferences for the jury from the slant or angle of the wound as to the relative positions of the combatants when the fatal shot was fired. `This would be invasive of the province of the jury and a matter of which they would be quite as competent to judge as the witness, having been given a description of the wound.' Mathis v. State , 15 Ala. App. 245 , 248 , 73 So. 122 , 124 (1916)." See also, Wilson v. State , 430 So.2d 891 (Ala.Crim.App. 1983).”
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.