52 Ala. App. 82 - Conner v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1973

Citation profile

cited by 38 later decisions

states following

August 2011

most recently cited

38 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently August 2011 · most notably 53 Ala. App. 492 - Frazier v. State (1974), 57 Ala. App. 234 - Binion v. State (1975)

38 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 Boykin v. Alabama · Furman v. Georgia · Thompson v. City of Louisville · Duncan v. State · Relf 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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

“"We do not think that our cases call for a religious test in contravention of the Alabama Constitution, § 3, nor of the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. Wright v. State , 24 Ala. App. 378 , 135 So. 636 (witness was an atheist). "The important enquiry is the morality of speaking truthfully. McGuff v. State , 88 Ala. 147 , 7 So. 35 ; Wigmore, supra, §§ 495 (2) and 1828; Code 1940, T. 7, §§ 363 and 364." 1”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. 384 So. 2d 864 - Roberson v. State · 386 So. 2d 776 - Harville v. State
““We believe that the Alabama cases are clear to the effect that, while the trial judge ex mero motu may reject a tendered witness of tender years, nevertheless, he may rely on the adversary process and swear the witness without error if no objection is raised.” (Footnote omitted)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
e.g. Kyle v. State
““Matters not objected to in trial court cannot be considered for the first time on appeal * * —Greathouse v. State, 47 Ala.App. 71 , 250 So.2d 609 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
e.g. Bush 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.