52 Ala. App. 422 - Pierce v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
73 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions — most recently June 2013 · most notably Tillis v. State (1974), Pierce v. State (1974)
73 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 Pate v. Robinson · Bridges v. State · Knight v. State · Cox v. State · Taylor v. United States
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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“". . . We hold that the letter was properly rejected inasmuch as it was replete with opinions and conclusions of a putative psychologist whose qualifications appear nowhere in the record. Opinions are generally inadmissible when emanating from the mind of one not fully qualified as an expert. Cox v. State , 280 Ala. 318 , 193 So.2d 759 ; Horn v. State , 22 Ala. App. 66 , 111 So. 452 . "§ 415, supra, is merely a statutory exception to the hearsay evidence rule and in no way abrogates the opinion evidence rule. Mahone v. Birmingham Electric Co. , 261 Ala. 132 , 73 So.2d 378 ; Greathouse v. Credit Bureau, Inc. , 279 Ala. 524 , 187 So.2d 565 ."”
3 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.