46 Ala. App. 357 - Sparks v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently January 2003 · most notably Coral v. State (1992), 54 Ala. App. 254 - Hurst v. State (1974)
37 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 Sanders v. State · Sparrenberger v. State · Jarvis v. State · Hudson v. State · Childress 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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The motion for a continuance was addressed to the sound discretion of the trial court, whose action is not reviewable unless gross abuse is shown. Denial of continuance is not a palpable abuse of discretion in the absence of a showing as to what the witness would testify. Brand v. State, 13 Ala.App. 390 , 69 So. 379 ; Hudson v. State, 217 Ala. 479 , 116 So. 800 .” See also the case of Bonner v. State, 52 Ala.App. 346 , 292 So.2d 460 .”
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.