440 So. 2d 343 - Carroll v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2025
8 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 Irvin v. Dowd · Dobbert v. Florida · 368 So. 2d 871 - Cumbo v. State · Anderson v. State · Shadle 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.
“"`. . . [T]he general rule is that prejudicial statements, even though improper, are considered capable of being eradicated by the trial judge in sustaining objections thereto or by appropriate instructions to the jury or both. Allred v. State , [ 291 Ala. 34 , 277 So.2d 339 (1973)], supra; Dunn v. State , 277 Ala. 39 at 44, 166 So.2d 878 (1964); Bachelor v. State , 216 Ala. 356 , 361 , 113 So. 67 (1927); Anderson v. State , 209 Ala. 36 , 44 , 95 So. 171 (1922).' (Emphasis added). Meredith v. State , 370 So.2d 1075 (Ala.Cr.App.), writ denied, 370 So.2d 1079 (Ala. 1979); Miller v. State , 431 So.2d 586 (Ala.Cr.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.