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Eiland v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1875

Citation profile

81
cited by 81 later decisions
7
states following
September 2000
most recently cited

80 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 81 later decisions — most recently September 2000 · most notably 358 So. 2d 1040 - Bankston v. State (1978), Storey v. State (1882)

80 state decisions

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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 Oliver v. State · Dupree v. State · Felix v. State · Franklin v. State · Pritchett 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 81 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. ““Charges moved for by either party must be in writing, and must be given or refused in the terms in which they are written.” Section 9509, Code of 1923.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Mobile City Lines, Inc. v. Holman · Covis v. State
  2. ““If it needs qualification, or restriction, or modification, to make it a correct legal proposition, as applicable to the evidence, the duty of the court is to refuse it. The power and duty of the court is to explain, not to qualify.” Eiland v. State, 52 Ala. 322 .”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
    e.g. Covis v. State
  3. ““This right the statute secures, and it cannot be diminished by the giving of a charge as it is requested, and then so limiting, restricting, or modifying it by qualification, as to diminish the force to which it may be entitled as a legal proposition.””
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
    e.g. Covis 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.