513 So. 2d 79 - Harris v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
65 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently September 2017 · most notably 778 So. 2d 199 - Hyde v. State (1998), 555 So. 2d 818 - Johnson v. State (1989)
65 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 Skibs A/S Jolund v. American Smelting & Refining Co. · Fuller v. State · Embrey v. State · Roberson v. State · 24 Ala. App. 451 - Byrd 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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he credibility of witnesses and the weight or probative force of testimony is for the jury to judge and determine.”
21 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Butler v. State · LLJ v. State“A reversal will not be predicated upon the refusal of a requested charge where the import and intent of the defendant's requested charge is covered in the charge given by the trial court, even though the actual language of the request was not embraced within the court's charge.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"Under Alabama Code 1975, § 12-16-13 , a trial court does not commit error in refusing to give a requested charge where the import and intent of the requested charge are 'substantially and fairly' covered in its given charge even though the actual language of the requested charge is not employed in the oral charge."”
1 later decision 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.