Law v. Saks’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently August 1969
4 federal appellate · 18 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 McNeil v. Munson S. S. Lines · Godfrey v. Vinson · Indemnity Ins. Co. of North America v. Turnipseed · First Nat. Bank of Dothan v. Sanders · Sington v. Birmingham Ry., Light & Power 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Plaintiff perhaps correctly described the situation when she said: "We were both just driving along," and we can find nothing in her testimony or that offered in her behalf justifying a submission of the wanton count to the jury. ( 241 Ala. at 39 , 1 So.2d at 29 .)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“We fail to find evidence in this case justifying a reasonable inference that the defendant on this occasion, with reckless indifference to consequences consciously and intentionally, did a wrongful act or omitted some known duty which produced the injury. * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“defendant's car (though there was no center line mark) was over the center 1 1/2 or 2 feet at or near the point of collision with ample space, however, for the passage of the two cars.”
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.