565 So. 2d 1197 - Suttle v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently September 2019
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 McDougall v. North Carolina · Ex Parte Bush · Ex Parte Yarber · Joubert v. Nebraska · 375 So. 2d 1271 - Jackson 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“' 505 So.2d at 1255 . " 'A showing that there was no break in the chain of custody is required to establish a sufficient predicate for admission into evidence. Ex parte Yarber , 375 So.2d 1231 (Ala. 1979), reversed on other grounds, 437 So.2d 1330 (Ala. 1983). The identification of the evidence and continuity of possession must be sufficiently established in order to assure the authenticity of the item, Ex parte Yarber , supra. " 'This state employs two separate standards for testing the chain of custody — the weak link test announced in Sommer v. State , 489 So.2d 643 (Ala.Crim.App. 1986), and the missing link test announced in Mauldin v. State , 402 So.2d 1106 (Ala.Crim.App. 1981). " 'Where a weak link in the chain of custody is found, the weight and credit afforded the evidence, rather than its admissibility, is questioned. Sommer , supra. Where a break in the chain of custody, or a "missing link”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Brooks v. State · Moorman v. State“The principles governing this issue were set forth in Ex parte Williams , 548 So.2d 518 , 520 (Ala. 1989):”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Moorman v. State · Smith v. State“`the substance analyzed has passed through several hands the evidence must not leave it to conjecture as to who had it and what was done with it between the taking and the analysis.' Rodgers v. Commonwealth, 197 Va. 527 , 90 S.E.2d 257, 260 (1955) (emphasis added).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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