44 Ala. App. 312 - White v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently March 1996
18 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 Shadle v. State · Jackson v. State · 36 Ala. App. 507 - Littlefield v. State · Swain v. State · Andrews 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““On the trial of all indictments, complaints, or other criminal proceedings,, the person on trial shall, at his own request, but not otherwise, be a competent witness; and his failure to make such a request shall not create any presumption against him, nor be the subject of comment by counsel. * * * ” •”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“matter of continuances are addressed to the sound discretion of the trial court and without a showing of clear abuse, the trial court's decision will not be disturbed on appeal.”
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.