480 So. 2d 38 - Gamble v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently September 2011
10 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 Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Chambers v. Maroney · Sedillo v. United States · Local 408, International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. National Labor Relations Board · Illinois v. Andreas
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"`The entire charge must be considered and if upon the whole no prejudice to defendant intervened no reversal should be entered.' Mosley v. State , 241 Ala. 132 , 136 , 1 So.2d 593 (1941). `[T]he portion of the charge here excepted to should be construed in connection with the whole charge of the court.' Ex parte Cowart , 201 Ala. 525 , 526 , 78 So. 879 (1918). . . . `While a particular remark by the trial judge may be open to question, in order for it to amount to the grossly improper error requiring reversal, it must have influenced the result of the case.' Lokos v. State , 434 So.2d 818 , 823 (Ala.Cr.App. 1982), aff'd, Ex parte Lokos , 434 So.2d 831 (Ala. 1983); McCovery v. State , 365 So.2d 358 (Ala.Cr.App. 1978)." Id.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“`[i]t cannot be seriously contended that every expression of opinion by the court, during the progress of the trial, ... shall furnish ground for reversal.' Lang v. State, 279 Ala. 169, 170 , 182 So.2d 899 (1966).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Baker v. State · McNeely v. State“each case of allegedly improper remarks by a trial judge must be judged on its own peculiar facts.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Baker v. State · McNeely 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.