548 So. 2d 573 - McCray v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently December 2014 · most notably Johnson v. State (1992), 590 So. 2d 918 - Ex Parte Holton (1991)
40 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 · Rakas v. Illinois · Rawlings v. Kentucky · Sherman v. United States · United States v. Payner
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘The State need only prove to a reasonable probability that the object is in the same condition as, and not substantially different from, its condition at the commencement of the chain. Sommer v. State, 489 So.2d 643, 645 (Ala.Cr.App.1986).’ McCray v. State, 548 So.2d 573, 576 (Ala. Cr.App.1988). ‘The evidence need not negate the most remote possibility of substitution, alteration, or tampering of the evidence.’ Slaughter v. State, 411 So.2d 819, 822 (Ala.Cr.App.1981).””
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Gray v. State · Lámar 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.