698 So. 2d 228 - Akin v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently October 2012
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 Huddleston v. United States · Phelps Dodge Corp. v. AFL-CIO Joint Negotiating Committee · Republic of Ghana v. Trefalcon Corp. · Rondon v. Indiana · Green 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The decision whether to allow or not to allow evidence of collateral crimes or acts as part of the State's case-in-chief rests within the sound discretion of the trial judge.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“"In Huddleston v. United States , 485 U.S. 681 , 687 , 108 S.Ct. 1496 , 1500 , *Page 947 99 L.Ed.2d 771 (1988), the United States Supreme Court `expressly declined to require a level of proof of at least a preponderance of the evidence before the trial court could allow evidence of an extrinsic act to go before the jury.' Ex parte Hinton , 548 So.2d [562] at 567 [(Ala. 1989)]. `Rather, "similar" acts evidence should be admitted if there is sufficient evidence to support a finding by the jury that the defendant committed the similar act.' Huddleston , 485 U.S. at 685 , 108 S.Ct. at 1499."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“`[I]t is not necessary to prove to an absolute certainty, but only to a reasonable probability, that the object is the same as, and not substantially different from, the object at the commencement of the chain.' Grice v. State, 481 So.2d 449, 451 (Ala.Cr.App. 1985).”
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.