54 Ala. App. 707 - Palmer v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently October 2005 · most notably Ex Parte Chambers (1987), 55 Ala. App. 272 - Highsmith v. State (1975)
45 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 Boswell v. State · 38 Ala. App. 64 - Wright v. State · Ellis v. State · Wright v. State · Wynn v. McCraney
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The defendants' objection raised the question. They objected `because it was not the proper manner to prove a conviction.' The proper manner was not by this witness, but by a certified copy of the record showing it, or by the oral testimony of the person convicted. The court erred in overruling that objection to the question." (Emphasis added, citations omitted).”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Hall v. State · Hope v. State“"(a) Any person convicted of a second or subsequent offense under this chapter may be imprisoned for a term up to twice the term otherwise authorized, fined an amount up to twice that otherwise authorized or both. "(b) For purposes of this section, an offense is considered a second or subsequent offense, if, prior to his conviction of the offense, the offender has at any time been convicted under this chapter or under any statute of the United States or of any state relating to narcotic drugs, marihuana, depressant, stimulant or hallucinogenic drugs."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“". . . Any person who possesses . . . controlled substances . . . is guilty of a felony and upon conviction for first offense may be imprisoned not less than 2 nor more than 15 years and, in addition, may be fined not more than $25,000: except any person who possesses any marihuana for his personal use only is guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction for the offense shall be imprisoned in the county jail for not more than 1 year, and in addition, shall be fined not more than $1,000; but the penalties for the subsequent offenses relating to possession of marihuana shall be the same as specified in the first sentence of this section 258 (47)(a)."”
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.