44 Ala. App. 491 - Maples v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently September 2009 · most notably 48 Ala. App. 178 - Sellers v. State (1972), 53 Ala. App. 213 - Miller v. State (1974)
34 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 Terry v. Ohio · Duncan v. State · Green v. United States · Nichols v. State · Walker 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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * It is always permissible to cross examine a witness to ascertain his interest, bias, prejudice or partiality concerning matters about which he is testifying. The proper way to show bias on the part of the witness is to ask him directly the state of his feelings, and if he denies bias, then resort may be had to facts tending to show it.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““ ‘Reasonable grounds for suspicion when accompanied by facts or circumstances strong enough to justify a reasonably cautious man to believe the guilt of the suspect, suffice to constitute probable cause necessary for arrest without warrant.’ ””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““§ 154. Arrest by officer without warrant; when and for what allowed. — An officer may also arrest any person, without warrant, on any day and at any time when a felony has been committed, and he has reasonable cause to believe that the person arrested committed it . .”
2 later decisions 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.