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48 Ala. App. 726 - Eady v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1972

Citation profile

122
cited by 122 later decisions
2
states following
August 1989
most recently cited

122 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Allen v. United States · Starr v. United States · Cox v. State · Ashford v. McKee · 41 Ala. App. 85 - Lindsay 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 122 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “"If the `Allen' or `dynamite' charge was being presented to this court for the first time, and we were not bound by the decisions of our Supreme Court, I would welcome the opportunity to sound the death knell to this type of charge now and forevermore. . . ."”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “Judge Harris stated that one of the most chilling experiences in a trial lawyer's life is to sit helplessly and listen to the trial judge give the”
    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.