520 So. 2d 223 - Thomas v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently December 2014
22 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 Batson v. Kentucky · Yelton v. State · 425 So. 2d 500 - Gwin v. State · 425 So. 2d 510 - Ex Parte Gwin · Bush 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he fact of the conversations . . . was offered to explain the officer's actions and presence at the scene — not for the truth of the matter asserted”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“'The rule is that testimony apparently illegal upon admission may be rendered prejudicially innocuous by subsequent legal testimony to the same effect or from which the same facts can be inferred.' Yelton v. State , 294 Ala. 340 , 342 , 317 So.2d 331 (1974). 'It is not error to allow the same facts to be again shown against objection when they have already been proven without objection.' Bush v. State , 282 Ala. 134 , 139 , 209 So.2d 416 (1968).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Where the defendant claims accident or self-defense the erroneous admission of the bullet allegedly taken from the body of the deceased is harmless error.”
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.