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← 241 Ala. 487 - Holman v. Brady

Holman v. Brady’s Empirical Analysis

1941

Citation profile

28
cited by 28 later decisions
1
states following
May 1990
most recently cited

2 federal appellate · 26 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently May 1990 · most notably Kozlowski v. State (1946), Graves v. Wildsmith (1965)

2 federal appellate · 26 state decisions

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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 McMillan v. Aiken · Miller v. Whittington · Buffalo Rock Co. v. Davis · Central of Georgia Railway Co. v. Ellison · Rowe v. Alabama 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “"* * * `Q. In your judgment, what distance west of that entrance would you have been completely clear of the truck, if he had not veered over on you?' "The answer was: `A. Before we passed the entrance to that place, I would have been completely by him.'”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “"* * * In permitting the foregoing questions and answers, reversible error intervened, such being material conclusions from detailed facts, which the jury itself should have been allowed to draw from the evidence."”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “"* * * `Would you say you would have passed him as far as fifty feet from the intersection if he had not cut over on you?' The witness answered, `Yes, sir.' * * *"”
    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.