Howell v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently May 2000
3 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 53 Ala. App. 280 - Whiddon v. State · Fuller v. State · Odom v. State · Wade 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The fact that the answer was not anticipated does not automatically make it non-responsive.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“When intent is at issue, testimony concerning abuse of other children by an accused is admissible as bearing on that issue.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“type of question that would naturally elicit an explanation from a witness.”
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.