489 So. 2d 680 - Crosslin v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently April 2016
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 Rathbun v. United States · Washington v. Strickland · Jeremiah Reeves, Jr. v. State of Alabama · Southern Electric Generating Co. v. Leibacher · Sovereign Camp, W. O. W. v. Adams
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.
“"An excellent statement, of this rule is found in C. Gamble, McRoy's Alabama Evidence , § 121.06 (3d ed. 1977): `As a general rule, a question to a witness which assumes the existence a material fact , to which he has not testified, is improper. . . . This rule against suggestive questions is applicable on both direct and cross-examination. It has been stated that the reason for prohibiting such questions is to avoid misleading the jury and the witness.'"”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Phillips v. State“Questions assuming facts not in evidence are objectionable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McIntyre 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.