488 So. 2d 8 - Grimes v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
11 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 474 So. 2d 168 - Bush v. City of Troy · 337 So. 2d 321 - Patton v. City of Decatur · 455 So. 2d 944 - Swann v. City of Huntsville · Moore v. Stephens · 36 Ala. App. 197 - Gladden 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"A search of D.U.I. cases in Alabama reveals that a police officer is allowed to give his opinion as to the sobriety vel non of the appellant. See Pierson v. State, 31 Ala.App. 452 , 18 So.2d 578 (1944); Pate v. State, 35 Ala.App. 586 , 50 So.2d 796 (1951); Gladden v. State, 36 Ala. App. 197 , 54 So.2d 607 (1951); Durham v. State, 38 Ala.App. 341 , 83 So.2d 260 (1955); Holloway v. City of Birmingham, 56 Ala.App. 545 , 323 So.2d 726 (1975); Ex parte Bush, 474 So.2d 168 (Ala.1985)."”
3 later decisions 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.