47 Ala. App. 582 - Powell v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently September 1990 · most notably Owens v. State (1973), Motes v. State (1978)
54 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 Wenzler v. Pitchess · Aaron v. State · Dennison v. State · 41 Ala. App. 46 - Lackey v. State · 42 Ala. App. 439 - Green 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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * “The preliminary proof identifying and describing the considered articles fully complied with the rule and under no sort of theory would the trial court have been warranted in refusing their admission.” * * *”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"The evidence as to the custody and possession of the envelope and its contents sufficiently established there was no missing link in the chain of identification. The identification and continuity of possession were sufficiently shown, affording ample assurance of the authenticity of the envelope and its contents and the analysis conducted by the toxicologist."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Motes 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.