Powers v. Grayson’s Empirical Analysis
1926
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently November 1974
10 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 Cook v. Rome Brick Co. · Leftwich Lumber Co. v. Florence Mutual Building, Loan & Savings Ass'n · Birmingham Railway Light & Power Co. v. Mosely · Long v. Pocahontas Coal Co.
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The averments of the complaint are in this respect sufficient, and the omission thereof from the statement filed does not render the same defective, as was held in Cook v. Rome Brick Co., 98 Ala. 409 , 12 So. 918 .””
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.