Steele v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1887
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1992
20 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 Jones v. State · Redd v. State · Aaron v. State · King v. State · Jackson 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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““While one’s character or reputation may be assailed by showing a general bad repute in the neighborhood of his residence, or where he is known, particular acts of bad conduct, or special circumstances of disgrace, are not admissible for such purpose on direct examination, although they often may be on cross-examination by the opposite party. (Jones v. State, 76 Ala. 9 ; Jackson v. State, 78 Ala. 471 ; 1 Greenl. on Ev. 14th ed. sec. 55.)””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Sella
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.