46 Ala. App. 588 - McCray v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently October 2010 · most notably Prestwood v. State (2005), 929 So. 2d 992 - Ex Parte Eason (2005)
26 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 Carmichael v. State · 44 Ala. App. 632 - Harris v. State · Elliott v. State · 28 Ala. App. 506 - Kessler v. State Ex Rel. Davis · 28 Ala. App. 506 - Smith 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The right of appeal is wholly statutory and is authorized in criminal cases from a judgment of conviction.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“If no formal adjudication of guilt appears, but sentence is imposed by the court in accordance with the verdict, there is an implied judgment of guilt which will support an appeal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.