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536 So. 2d 155 - Cross v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1988

Citation profile

33
cited by 33 later decisions
1
states following
February 2018
most recently cited

33 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably Henderson v. State (1990), 808 So. 2d 1148 - Taylor v. State (2000)

33 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

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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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “'allowed wide latitude in drawing reasonable inferences from the evidence in closing arguments.' Cross v. State , 536 So.2d 155 , 160 (Ala.Cr.App. 1988); *Page 528 Donahoo v. State , 505 So.2d 1067 (Ala.Cr.App. 1986).”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Jones v. State · Maples v. State
  2. “A prosecutor may express her opinion concerning reasonable inferences, deductions, and conclusions to be drawn from the facts and evidence, as long as she does not express an opinion as to the defendant's guilt. Sams v. State, 506 So.2d 1027, 1029 (Ala.Cr.App. 1986).”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Wright v. State · 725 So. 2d 1003 - Price v. State
  3. “Therefore, the trial court did not err in allowing the prosecution to attack the credibility of the appellant's witness, nor did the prosecutor personally vouch for the credibility of the State's witness.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. 725 So. 2d 1003 - Price v. State · 838 So. 2d 413 - Smith 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.