Alexander v. Tingle’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently May 2010 · most notably Smith v. Bernfeld (1961), Edwards v. State (1951)
34 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 William J. Lemp Brewing Co. v. Mantz · Hill v. Iglehart · Calvert Bank v. J. Katz & Co. · Spence v. Bethlehem Steel Co. · McCosker & Molloy v. Banks
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Also, this is the type of case in which it would probably be desirable to frame special issues for submission to the jury in accordance with the practice established by Rule 7, ‘Special Verdicts,’ Part Three, III, of the General Rules of Practice and Procedure, 1941, [the forerunner of Rule 560] for juries would be less likely in cases such as this to decide specific issues contrary to the weight of the evidence, than they would be in deciding such a general issue as whether to find for plaintiff or for defendant.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““As the plaintiff in the instant case had the burden of proving all of the issues raised by the pleadings, and as the defendant had filed general issue pleas and, although not expressly denying, did not admit the truth of plaintiffs testimony, it could not be said that the facts were uncontroverted, therefore, the trial court correctly ruled when plaintiffs first prayer was rejected.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.