555 So. 2d 805 - Carroll v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
September 1998
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 31 Ala. App. 571 - Mullins v. State · Lowery v. State · Ex Parte Gadsden Iron Works, Inc. · Grooms v. State · Wright 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'A witness may not be cross-examined for impeachment as to specific acts of misconduct by him which have no relevancy except as tending to show that he is a person of bad character as a whole or with respect to truth and veracity. . ..”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he accused may always be prepared to meet an attack on his general character, but cannot fairly be required, without notice, to defend against every possible aspersion which may be made against him, or to controvert particular facts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Snyder 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.