54 Ala. App. 198 - Hall v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently May 2021 · most notably Walker v. Jones (1994), Bryant v. State (1977)
3 federal appellate · 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 17 Ala. App. 674 - Dennison v. State · Hodge v. State · Walker v. State · 17 Ala. App. 536 - King v. State · Jones 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a real doubt or a substantial doubt growing out of the evidence. It is a doubt for which a reason can be given.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a doubt for which a reason may be given,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““. . . [W]e must remind appellant that the trial judge was acting within his discretion, and that if we were to reverse and remand because we disagree with him we would be abusing our discretion or usurping discretion which we do not have. . . . ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Nesbitt 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.