494 So. 2d 798 - Towns v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently September 2011
5 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 485 So. 2d 787 - Ex Parte Wilhite · 489 So. 2d 612 - Cox v. State · 365 So. 2d 358 - McCovery v. State · 352 So. 2d 11 - Robinson v. State · Griffin 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`Remarks by the trial judge may be open to criticism, but they are not error unless they have affected the result of the trial.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Baker v. State · McNeely v. State“`[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).”
2 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.