49 Ala. App. 88 - McGuff v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently May 1995 · most notably 53 Ala. App. 465 - Price v. State (1974), 443 So. 2d 1371 - Holsemback v. State (1983)
2 federal appellate · 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 United States v. Wade · Gilbert v. California · Clemons v. United States · Johnson v. State · Thomas 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(i)n a homicide prosecution, `threats or hostile demonstrations by the accused toward persons not connected with the deceased are not admissible.' McGuff v. State , 49 Ala. App. 88 , 91 , 268 So.2d 868 , 871 , cert. denied, 289 Ala. 746 , 268 So.2d 877 (1972).”
2 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.