16 Ala. App. 418 - Driver v. Pate’s Empirical Analysis
1918
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently May 1991 · most notably 18 Ala. App. 466 - Taylor v. State (1922), 20 Ala. App. 76 - Holladay v. State (1924)
40 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 Alabama Fuel & Iron Co. v. Rice · Kansas City M. & B. R. R. v. Phillips
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“" did affect the verdict, for it has been held many times that it need not be shown, necessarily, that the misconduct relied on as a ground for a new trial actually controlled or determined the verdict, if it is made apparent that the verdict might have been affected by it."”
2 later decisions 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.