Aplin v. Dean’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
70 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions — most recently June 2010 · most notably 482 So. 2d 1176 - General Motors Corp. v. Edwards (1985), Foodtown Stores, Inc. v. Patterson (1968)
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 Milwaukee and Saint Paul Railway Company v. Kellogg · Atchison Topeka Santa Fe Railway Company v. Samuel Calhoun · Birmingham Amusement Co. v. Norris · Alabama Power Co. v. Bass · Herr v. City of Lebanon
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There is no merit in defendant’s eighth assignment of error. The evidence was sufficient to authorize the jury to find that the accident occurred upon a public highway in Baldwin county, within a half mile of Stockton; that this public highway ran through Stockton to Bay-Minette. One of the witnesses called it the Stockton-Tensaw highway. At most, the omission of proof, in this respect, presented only a question of variance, capable of being supplied by further evidence identifying the highway. The variance, if any in fact, was not called to the trial court’s attention, and the court will not be put in error for refusing to give the general affirmative charge for defendant based upon this supposed variance. Rule 35.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Crum v. McGhee
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.