Ex Parte Tucker’s Empirical Analysis

1985

Citation profile

cited by 32 later decisions

states following

July 2015

most recently cited

2 federal appellate · 29 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently July 2015 · most notably 548 So. 2d 573 - McCray v. State (1988), 630 So. 2d 147 - Sistrunk v. State (1993)

2 federal appellate · 29 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 Hinton v. State · Logan v. State · 398 So. 2d 369 - Stewart v. State · 398 So. 2d 376 - Green v. State · 376 So. 2d 834 - Sparks 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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

“[W]hen one party brings out part of a transaction or conversation, the other party may inquire further into the matter or bring out the whole subject for further examination.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. St. John v. State · Ray v. State
““is not admissible if the only probative function of such evidence is to show his bad character, inclination or propensity to commit the type of crime for which he is being tried. This rule is generally applicable whether the other crime was committed before or after the one for which the Defendant is presently being tried.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. Register v. State · 522 So. 2d 231 - Davis v. State
““The credibility of a witness may be attacked by showing mental incapacity, but only if the incapacity exists at the time the witness testifies, or existed at the time of his observation of the incident about which he testifies. Stewart v. State, 398 So.2d 369 (Ala.Crim.App. 1981), cert. denied, 398 So.2d 376 (Ala. 1981).””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
e.g. 62 So. 3d 553 - Mills 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.