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← 57 ALAAPP 639 - Lawrence v. State

Lawrence v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1976

Citation profile

3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
October 2003
most recently cited

3 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Young v. State · Aron v. United States · Orr v. State · 37 Ala. App. 308 - Drummond v. State · 24 Ala. App. 176 - Wade 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “`In a number of instances the propriety of the court's action in calling as its own witnesses persons who were personally present at the transaction forming the basis of the prosecution, or whose testimony was material to the issues in the case, has been upheld under the facts and circumstances shown. In some instances, accomplices and co-indictees have been held properly called as court's witnesses, and the propriety of the trial court's making a witness its own after the latter had commenced to testify as a witness of the prosecution, has occasionally been recognized.'”
    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.