45 Ala. App. 196 - Brooks v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently October 1998
24 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 Ford v. State · Handley v. State · Oliver v. State · Neal v. State · Montgomery 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"`A defendant in a criminal prosecution is entitled to a fair and impartial trial, and nothing more. So long as the conduct of the special prosecutor comports to due and orderly procedure a defendant is in no position to complain as to who conducts the prosecution. Jones v. State, 16 Ala. App. 154 , 75 So. 830 [(1917)]. Certainly, as here, where special counsel acted with the consent of the regular prosecutor, and with permission”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. McCrory v. State · Weaver v. State“he was going to get one of the city councilmen”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cowart 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.