44 Ala. App. 339 - Benefield v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently May 1983
16 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 17 Ala. App. 674 - Dennison v. State · 34 Ala. App. 253 - Williams v. State · 36 Ala. App. 156 - Neal v. State · McGhee v. Alexander · Coley v. W. P. Brown & Sons Lumber Co.
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The evidence presented a question for the jury to determine as to whether the taking of the automobile was done with a felonious intent, or whether the taking was under a bona fide claim of right, and was sufficient to sustain the verdict. The motion for a new trial was properly refused. Ruffin v. State, 30 Ala.App. 344 , 6 So.2d 455 , cert. den., 242 Ala. 345 , 6 So.2d 456 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Benefield v. State““The extent of cross-examination on irrelevant facts, for the purpose of testing bias or credibility of the witness’ testimony is a matter resting largely in the discretion of the trial court, and his ruling will not be disturbed unless it appears that he has abused his discretion to the prejudice of the complaining party.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bone v. State
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.