Thomas v. White’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently July 1966
23 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 Martin v. Alabama Power Co. · Jasper Mercantile Co. v. O'Rear · Wood v. Coman · Alabama National Bank v. Hunt · Tallassee Falls Manufacturing Co. v. Western Railway
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““After reciting that plaintiff moved for a non-suit on account of adverse ruling of the court, the minute entry proceeds: ‘It is therefore considered and adjudged by the court that the defendant go hence and have and recover of the plaintiff all costs incurred in this prosecution, for which let execution issue.’ “This order ‘put the case out of court,’ and constitutes a final judgment. Wood v. Coman, 56 Ala. 283 , cited approvingly in Martin v. Alabama Power Co., 208 Ala. 212 , 94 So. 76 . This is in' accord with current authorities. Freeman on Judgments' (5th Ed.) p. 37; 18 Words and Phrases, Perm.Ed., p. 423 ; 2 Am.Jur. pi 867.””
2 later decisions 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.