620 So. 2d 122 - Covington v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently December 2015
14 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 Porzig v. Nolden · United States v. Harris · Stringer v. Mississippi · Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors of White Farm Equipment Co. v. United States · McAdory 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'An objection, of course, should fairly and specifically point out the particular grounds on which an alleged error occurred in order to inform the trial judge of the legal basis of the objection, thereby affording the trial judge an opportunity to reevaluate his or her initial ruling in light of the grounds alleged and to change it, if deemed necessary.' Ex parte Webb , 586 So.2d 954 , 957 (Ala. 1991).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"`[T]here is no requirement that in making a motion for a mistrial, defense counsel include a request for instructions to disregard.' Covington v. State,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“in attempting to impeach a hostile witness by questioning the witness about a prior conviction, a prosecutor must be prepared to rebut a negative answer with proper proof of the prior conviction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ex Parte Laakkonen
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.