Pardue v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1989

Citation profile

cited by 39 later decisions

states following

March 2018

most recently cited

39 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably 698 So. 2d 189 - Smith v. State (1996), Pardue v. State (1990)

39 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 Strickland v. Washington · Jackson v. Denno · Burks v. United States · Pate v. Robinson · Evitts v. Lucey

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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

“"The purpose for establishing a chain of custody is to show that the evidence has not been tampered with. . . . When the condition of the evidence is not at issue, however, it is not always necessary to establish a chain of custody."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. Naismith v. State · Miller v. State
“"The defendant was improperly sentenced for both burglary and theft arising out of the same act. . . . Although § 15-3-8 , Code of Alabama 1975, does not forbid double conviction for these offenses, it does forbid double punishment. . . . When the same criminal transaction supports both burglary and theft there can be but one punishment. . . . 'Whether this rule is served by a single sentence or concurrent sentences is a matter confided to the judge's discretion.' "”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. Knotts v. State · Capps v. State
“"If the offered item possesses characteristics which are fairly unique and readily identifiable, and if the substance of which the item is composed is relatively impervious to change, the trial court is viewed as having broad discretion to admit merely on the basis of testimony that the item is the one in question and is in a substantially unchanged condition."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. Wright v. State · 678 So. 2d 201 - Land 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.