Smith v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• \All such impeaching and sustaining character evidence must be carefully limited by the trial court to the question of the credibility of the defendant as a witness.\

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Cited by

20 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Higginbotham v. State
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1955-03-10· cited 47×
• Parker v. Newman
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1917-02-01· cited 43×
• Birmingham & A. Ry. Co. v. Campbell
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1919-04-17· cited 32×
• Hall v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1979-08-21· cited 26×
• Diamond v. State
  Alabama Court of Appeals· 1916-06-30· cited 20×
• Stout v. State
  Alabama Court of Appeals· 1916-08-01· cited 20×
• King v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1987-12-08· cited 19×
• Allsup v. State
  Alabama Court of Appeals· 1916-08-01· cited 16×
• Thomas v. State
  Alabama Court of Appeals· 1960-04-19· cited 15×
• Walling v. State
  Alabama Court of Appeals· 1916-11-28· cited 10×
• Stearns v. State
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1957-06-27· cited 10×
• Watson v. State
  Alabama Court of Appeals· 1916-06-30· cited 9×
• Russell v. State
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1929-05-16· cited 8×
• Holloway v. State
  Alabama Court of Appeals· 1956-02-07· cited 8×
• Sparks v. State
  Alabama Court of Appeals· 1953-03-03· cited 6×
• Posey v. State
  Alabama Court of Appeals· 1956-10-16· cited 2×
• Adderhold v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1986-11-12· cited 1×
• Tooson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1975-11-18
• Hayden v. State
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1955-04-14
• Bearden v. Goss
  Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama· 1984-08-15

Cites

11 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Pritchett v. State
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1853-01-15· cited 45×
• Franklin v. State
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1856-06-15· cited 43×
• Nugent v. State
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1850-06-15· cited 35×
• Dave v. State
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1853-01-15· cited 30×
• Sanford v. State
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1904-11-15· cited 28×
• Mitchell v. State
  Alabama Court of Appeals· 1916-01-20· cited 27×
• Hadjo v. Gooden
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1848-01-15· cited 24×
• Aikin v. State
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1860-01-15· cited 24×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1871-06-15· cited 14×
• State v. Beal
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1879-11-15· cited 13×
• Dawson v. State
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1916-04-13· cited 9×