57 Ala. App. 234 - Binion v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently September 1998 · most notably 353 So. 2d 24 - McLaren v. State (1977), Hill v. State (1978)
30 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 Young v. State · Espey v. State · Stephens v. State · Baldwin v. State · 52 Ala. App. 179 - Moore 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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Appellant's motion for a new trial was overruled and denied. In reviewing the refusal of a motion for a new trial, this court will indulge every presumption in favor of the correctness of the ruling of the trial court and the decision thereon rests largely within the discretion of the trial judge. Espey v. State , 270 Ala. 669 , 120 So.2d 904 ; Owens v. State , 40 Ala. App. 36 , 109 So.2d 141 ; Moore v. State , 52 Ala. App. 179 , 290 So.2d 246 ; Jones v. State, supra. [ 54 Ala. App. 251 , 307 So.2d 59 ]"”
1 later decision 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.