53 Ala. App. 222 - Winstead v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently December 2007 · most notably 450 So. 2d 1102 - Trahan v. State (1984), 10 So. 3d 53 - Saunders v. State (2007)
23 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 33 Ala. App. 414 - Lovejoy v. State · Yarbrough v. State · Smith v. State · Carter v. State · Davis 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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The court may order an alternate juror to take the place of a principal juror only when a principal juror, prior to the retirement of the jury to consider its verdict, is excused by the court, in the exercise of its sound discretion, from further service by reason of some mental or physical ailment in such principal juror or his confrontation with some emergency, rendering him unable to perform his duties satisfactorily."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"Matters of this kind cannot be raised by mere exception to the oral charge . . Rather, counsel must submit written instructions covering the omitted principle in order to preserve the alleged error for appellant review."”
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.