548 So. 2d 1062 - Cochran v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2016 · most notably Soffar v. Texas (1989), Jackson v. Herring (1995)
4 federal appellate · 34 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 Strickland v. Washington · Batson v. Kentucky · Wainwright v. Sykes · Murray v. Carrier · Swain v. State of Alabama
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'[A]mendments should be freely allowed and ... trial judges must be given discretion to allow or refuse amendments.... The trial judge should allow a proposed amendment if it is necessary for a full determination on the merits and if it does not unduly prejudice the opposing party or unduly delay the trial.' Record Data International, Inc. v. Nichols , 381 So.2d 1 , 5 (Ala.1979) (citations omitted). 'The grant or denial of leave to amend is a matter within the sound discretion of the trial judge....' Walker v. Traughber , 351 So.2d 917 (Ala.Civ.App.1977).”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“'Courts may properly refuse permission to amend . . . where there is no showing of diligence or that the facts were unknown to the applicant prior to his application.'”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a]mendments to pleadings may be permitted at any stage of the proceedings prior to the entry of judgment”
5 later decisions 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.