Sexton v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently August 1991 · most notably Dixie Electric Company v. Maggio (1975), 39 Ala. App. 676 - Kennedy v. State (1958)
27 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 Roan v. State · Alabama Great Soiitliern Railroad v. Hawk · Bessierre v. Ala. City G. & A. R. R. · Birmingham & A. Ry. Co. v. Campbell · Illinois Central R. R. v. Lowery
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“embraces all facts which are relevant, explanatory, or illustrative of, or which give character to, or illustrate the character of, or which characterize the act or principal fact which was the subject of or for decision. . . . It also embraces all facts which are contemporaneous with such main fact or which constitute a part of the transaction and was spontaneous.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the undesigned incidents of a particular litigated act.”
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.