Woods v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently October 2013 · most notably 585 So. 2d 97 - Bankhead v. State (1990), Sockwell v. State (1993)
46 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 Shadle v. State · Fletcher v. State · 31 Ala. App. 21 - Wilson v. State · 358 So. 2d 782 - Van Antwerp v. State · Ex Parte Van Antwerp
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When, as here, a trial court immediately charges the jury to disregard improper remarks, there is a prima facie presumption against error.”
22 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Garzarek v. State · Brewer v. State“`Generally, photographs are admissible into evidence in a criminal prosecution "if they tend to prove or disprove some disputed or material issue, to illustrate or elucidate some other relevant fact or evidence, or to corroborate or disprove some other evidence offered or to be offered, and their admission is within the sound discretion of the trial judge.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Where a photograph depicts not only the wound which allegedly caused death, but *Page 578 also depicts a surgical incision, such a photograph is not rendered inadmissible because of the depiction of the incision, where the incision is clearly identified.”
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.