Johnson v. Foust’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently July 1986
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 Ex Parte Rosenblum · Lewis v. Martin · Richards v. Williams · Williams v. Knight · Stallings v. Clark
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 not failed to take note of the case of Housing Authority v. Abney , 241 Ala. 256 , 2 So.2d 428 , to the effect that a motion for a new trial timely made and continued suspends the finality of the judgment for the purpose of an appeal. In that case the appeal was taken by the party who had not made the motion for a new trial, and while the court held jurisdiction by reason of the motion by his adversary. In the case of MacMahon v. Dozier , 237 Ala. 574 , 187 So. 710 , the appeal was taken by the party who had made the motion for a new trial, and we held that jurisdiction was thereby withdrawn from the circuit court to act on the motion for a new trial. The effect being that a movant for a new trial can withdraw or dismiss or discontinue his motion and take an appeal, and that if he appeals without doing so, the effect is to discontinue the motion for a new trial, reinstate the judgment and appeal from it, all in one operation.”
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.