Rodgers v. Dixon’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently February 1998
12 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 Hodge v. Joy · Kelly v. Carmichael · Dewberry v. Bank of Standing Rock · Dozier v. Farrior · Slaughter 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We have indicated that necessary permanent improvements have a well defined meaning in this jurisdiction, which is to preserve the property by properly keeping it in repair for its proper and reasonable use, having due regard for the necessities of each subject as to its kind and character. This includes not only ordinary repairs to restore the property after injury, decay, storm, flood, or fire, etc., but also valuable and useful additions and improvements to the property suited to its reasonable necessities, character and use. Snow v. Montesano Land Co. , 206 Ala. 310 , 89 So. 719 ; Smith v. Sulzby , 205 Ala. 301 , 87 So. 823 ; 41 C.J. p. 645, § 649 et seq. Ewing v. First Nat. Bank , 227 Ala. 46 , 148 So. 836 ; Malone v. Nelson , 232 Ala. 243 , 167 So. 714 . As to this each case is ruled by its facts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Moore v. Horton
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.