Esslinger v. Spragins’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently August 2007 · most notably Home Insurance Company v. Stuart-McCorkle, Inc. (1973), 376 So. 2d 1083 - Seybold v. Magnolia Land Co. (1979)
6 federal appellate · 52 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 Fretwell v. McLemore · Kinnon v. L. & N. R. R. · Wiggins v. Stewart Bros. · Bromberg v. First Nat. Bank of Mobile · Ex Parte Louisville N. R. 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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We have uniformly held that an order refusing to transfer a cause from the law docket to the equity docket may not be assigned for error ‘on any sort of an appeal, and one which makes the transfer can only be assigned for error on appeal from a final decree.’ Holder v. Taylor, 233 Ala. 477 , 172 So. 761, 762 ; Derzis v. Cox, 223 Ala. 517 , 137 So. 306 ; Ex parte Louisville & N. R. Co., 211 Ala. 531 , 100 So. 843 ; Pearson v. City of Birmingham, 210 Ala. 296 , 97 So. 916 ; Smith v. Grayson, 214 Ala. 197 , 107 So. 448 ; Wiggins v. Stewart Bros., 215 Ala. 9 , 109 So. 101 ; Code, Section 6490.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Cause of action accrues as soon as the party aggrieved is entitled to begin and prosecute such action.”
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.