513 So. 2d 1036 - Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
June 1991
most recently cited
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 17 Ala. App. 674 - Dennison v. State · Williams v. State · Nichols v. State · 425 So. 2d 500 - Gwin v. State · 368 So. 2d 554 - Sprinkle 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[h]earsay does not include statements of witnesses in the present trial subject to cross-examination by the party against whom the statements are offered.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a] statement by the accused, before the time of the alleged criminal act, asserting a design [to kill],”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Snell 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.