57 Ala. App. 310 - Fisher v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
57 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently February 2010 · most notably 372 So. 2d 1024 - State v. Hatcher (1979), 473 So. 2d 1149 - Primm v. State (1985)
57 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 Furman v. Georgia · Cox v. State · Stone v. State · Hall v. State · 54 Ala. App. 682 - Hogue 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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“". . . The only effect of Furman was to eliminate the imposition of the death penalty as it was then enforced, and not to eliminate the classification whereby crimes are categorized as capital for purposes other than punishment."”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Dickerson v. State · Scott v. State“"Additionally, his [the appellant's] testimony would lead one to believe that he in no way used any force on the prosecutrix, but was an innocent victim of her lust. The testimony of E.L., that she was attacked by this same appellant five days prior to the alleged attack upon the prosecutrix, should be relevant to show motive and intent or to rebut the appellant's defense that the act was voluntary. We are of the opinion that the trial court did not err in admitting the testimony of E.L.. See Hogue v. State , 54 Ala. App. 682 , 312 So.2d 86 [(1975)], and cases cited therein."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“'[W]hen the accused takes the stand to testify in his own behalf, he does so in a dual capacity — (1) as the accused and (2) as a witness. In his capacity as a witness his credibility may be impeached in the same way or ways in which the credibility of any other witness may be impeached. Stone v. State , 208 Ala. 50 , 93 So. 706 ; Pitts v. State , 261 Ala. 314 , 74 So.2d 232 . "A defendant, who testifies for himself as a witness, may be impeached in the same manner as other witnesses, by showing that he has been *Page 1018 convicted of a crime involving moral turpitude, or that he has made contradictory statements, or that he is a person of bad character.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Freeman 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.