Stanley v. Beck’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently October 1992 · most notably Bolton v. Barnett Lumber & Supply Company (1958), Spruiell v. STANDFORD (1952)
34 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 Kennedy v. Davis · Hale v. Cox · New York Life Ins. Co. v. Mason · Mitchell v. Parker · Sawyer v. Stanley
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ . . . . But rule 10 (now Rule 9) of Supreme Court practice, Code of 1940, Title 7, page 1008, provides that counsel for appellant in their brief shall, if the question is on the sufficiency of the evidence, make a condensed recital of the evidence in narrative form so as to present the substance clearly and concisely, which shall be taken as accurate and sufficient for decision by this Court, unless the opposing party in his brief makes corrections and additions. And in rule 11 (now Rule 10), that the brief for appellee shall point out any omission or inaccuracies in appellant’s statement. It was said in New York Life Insurance Co. v. Mason, 236 Ala. 44 (7), 180 So. 775 , that the purpose of those rules was to enable the Court to determine from the briefs of counsel whether there was error in the trial court, without making it necessary to explore the entire record.....” (Parenthesis Supplied.) Stanley v. Beck, 242 Ala. 574, 576, 577 , 7 So.2d 276, 278 . “We have held that if there is a failure to comply with Rule 9 (old Rule 10), there is, as a consequence, a failure to insist upon errors assigned; and that the failure to insist upon errors assigned is a waiver and an abandonment of them. (Citations Omitted.)” Mothershed v. Mothershed, 274 Ala. 528, 530 , 150 So.2d 372, 373 . “ ‘ . . . . “It is well established that a reviewing court starts with the presumption that the record contains evidence to sustain every finding of fact. It is not the province of a reviewing court t”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“if the contest of a will is successful, the court may direct payment of the costs against either the plaintiff (that is, the proponent who lost) or out of the estate, or by them proportionately.”
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.