Baldwin v. Harrelson’s Empirical Analysis
1932
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently October 1986 · most notably Branyon v. Kirk (1939), Bryan v. W. T. Smith Lumber Co. (1965)
42 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 Smith v. Bachus · Yauger v. Taylor · Garlington v. City of Birmingham · Smith v. Cook · Ex Parte Russell
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When such a bill seeks only the statutory relief,, the complainant, upon proving the statutory allegations, is entitled to have the line described and located with reasonable certainty by the decree of the court (Clarke v. Earnest, 224 Ala. 165 , 139 So. 223 ), which shall, within itself or by reference to the pleading or other records in the cause, completely and accurately describe the true line. Hopkins v. Duggar, 204 Ala. 626 , 87 So. 103 ; Alverson v. Floyd, 219 Ala. 68 , 121 So. 55 ; Jenkins v. Raulston, 214 Ala. 443 , 108 So. 47 ; Smith v. Cook, supra [ 220 Ala. 338 , 124 So. 898 ].””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Limbaugh v. Comer
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.