Halle v. Brooks’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
70 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2011 · most notably Congress of Industrial Organizations v. McAdory (1945), Wetzel v. Hobbs (1947)
70 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 Cobb v. Malone · Hackett v. Cash · Southern States Fire Ins. v. Kronenberg · Roberts v. Williams · Woodrow v. Hawving
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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When a civil case is tried by the court without a jury, the conclusion of the trial judge upon the finding of fact from the evidence given ore tenus has the effect of a verdict of a jury, and will not be set aside, unless that judgment is contrary to the great weight of the evidence; that is, plainly erroneous or manifestly wrong.” Halle v. Brooks, 96 So. 341 , 209 Ala. 486 .”
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.