54 Ala. App. 80 - Farr v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1974

Citation profile

cited by 18 later decisions

states following

February 2005

most recently cited

18 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently February 2005

18 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 48 Ala. App. 178 - Sellers v. State · Swain v. State · 34 Ala. App. 447 - Warren v. State · 50 Ala. App. 182 - Whistenant v. State · Hooks 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

“"Title 15, Section 305, Code of Alabama 1940, as last amended does not prohibit a prosecutor from drawing reasonable inferences from the evidence presented in a case, and statements to the effect that the evidence is uncontradicted or undenied are not prohibited by the statute. Swain v. State , 275 Ala. 508 , 156 So.2d 368 ; Sellers v. State , 48 Ala. App. 178 , 263 So.2d 156 ; Whistenant v. State , 50 Ala. App. 182 , 278 So.2d 183 ."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
e.g. 338 So. 2d 187 - McCulloch v. State
“"MR. JOLLY: Most of the facts in this case are not disputed. "MR. McDOWELL: I want, at this time, to make a Motion for a Mis-Trial based *Page 189 on the District Attorney's Argument as to the disputed facts in this case, which in effect was a comment on the defendant's failure to testify.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
e.g. 338 So. 2d 187 - McCulloch v. State
“passion to cool and for reason to re-assert itself.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
e.g. 494 So. 2d 876 - Gholston 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.