Watson v. Baker’s Empirical Analysis
1934
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently March 1958
11 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 Oden v. King · Grayson v. Muckleroy · Wood v. Estes · Reeder v. Cox · Davidson v. Brown
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The effect of the statute, section 9905, Code, and the decisions thereunder, were indicated by Mr. Justice Bouldin in Hicks v. Stone, 210 Ala. 685 , 99 So. 115, 116 . It was there declared that ‘The settled construction of the statute now is that the bill of complaint should set forth, in the language’ of the statute, ‘or words of like import, all the conditions therein stated upon which the right to relief depends,’ and should ‘be followed either in the body or prayer by the call upon the respondent to specify his title,’ claim, interest, or incumbrance, and how and by what instrument the same is derived and created. Hicks v. Stone, supra; Parker v. Boutwell & Son, 119 Ala. 297 , 24 So. 860 ; Moore v. Alabama National Bank, 139 Ala. 273 , 35 So. 648 ; McCaleb v. Worcester, 224 Ala. 360 , 140 So. 595 ; Davidson v. Brown, 215 Ala. 205 , 110 So. 384 ; Davis v. Daniels, 204 Ala. 374 , 85 So. 797 ; Sibley v. Kennedy, 224 Ala. 354 , 140 So. 552 ; Reeder v. Cox, 218 Ala. 182 , 118 So. 338 . * *””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Stoudenmire v. Mims
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.