Dossey v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently May 2008 · most notably 598 So. 2d 895 - Ex Parte Jackson (1992), 580 So. 2d 11 - Stephens v. State (1990)
26 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 New York v. Ferber · Ruffalo v. Mahoning County Bar Ass'n · 368 So. 2d 871 - Cumbo v. State · Skelton v. City of Birmingham · Nichols 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The prosecutor has a right to comment on and answer statements made by defense counsel in argument to the jury. Dollar v. State , 26 Ala. App. 361 , 159 So. 704 (1935); Moragne v. State , 16 Ala. App. 26 , 28 , 74 So. 862 , 864 , reversed on other grounds, 200 Ala. 689 , 77 So. 322 (1917). Counsel should be afforded wide latitude in responding to assertions made by opposing counsel in previous argument. York v. State , 34 Ala. App. 188 , 190 , 39 So.2d 694 , 696 (1948), cert. denied, 252 Ala. 158 , 39 So.2d 697 (1949). 'Wide latitude is given the solicitor in making reply to argument previously made by appellant's counsel.' Moody v. State , 40 Ala. App. 373 , 374 , 113 So.2d 787 , 788 (1959). '[W]ide latitude is given a district attorney in making reply in kind, . . . and the propriety of argument of counsel is largely within the trial court's discretion.' Jetton v. State , 435 So.2d 167 , 171 (Ala.Cr.App. 1983)."”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“Evidence tending merely to impeach or contradict a State witness as to the testimony given upon the trial is generally not such newly discovered evidence as would warrant the granting of a new trial.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“' "[C]laims of inadequate representation cannot be determined on direct appeal where such claims were not raised before the . . . [trial] court and there has been no opportunity to develop and include in the record evidence bearing on the merits of the allegation.”
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.