611 So. 2d 443 - Long v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently September 2010
6 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 542 So. 2d 1316 - Brandon v. State · 450 So. 2d 188 - Oliver v. State · 585 So. 2d 261 - Inmon v. State · 582 So. 2d 581 - Fortner v. State · 439 So. 2d 737 - Burkett 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Long contends that the trial court erred in denying his motion for mistrial on the ground that the court examined the victim in front of the jury to determine his capacity to testify before the State’s examination of the victim. “This court has consistently held that the trial court has considerable discretion in the conduct of a trial, and unless clearly abused, its decision in exercising that discretion will not be overturned on appeal. Burkett v. State, 439 So.2d 737 (Ala.Crim.App.1983). “In the instant case, there is nothing in the record to support a finding that the trial court clearly abused its discretion in questioning the victim in front of the jury before the State’s examination of the victim, and the court’s questions to the victim did not in any manner indicate favor or disfavor toward the witness. The trial court therefore properly denied Long’s motion for mistrial on this ground.””
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.