Maddox v. Fuller’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently April 2002 · most notably First Alabama Bank of Montgomery Na v. First State Insurance Company Inc (1990), 352 So. 2d 1130 - Hinrichs v. Tranquilaire Hospital (1977)
4 federal appellate · 28 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 New Orleans Gas Co. v. Louisiana Light Co. · Denson v. Alabama Fuel & Iron Co. · Moore & Handley Hardware Co. v. Towers Hardware Co. · McCurry v. Gibson · Smith v. Webb
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“whether the public interest is injuriously affected in such substantial manner that private rights and interests should yield to those of the public.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“situation wherein additional capital outlay and overhead operating expenses may lead to abuses hurtful to the public interest, and ultimately to a crippling of efficient services at reasonable cost.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“public was deprived of no existing ginning facilities”
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.