Dudley v. Whatley’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently July 1984
13 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 Holcomb v. Forsyth · Vinyard v. Republic Iron & Steel Co. · Brown v. Bell · West v. State Ex Rel. Matthews · Singo v. Brainard
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In determining whether or not the bill has equity the facts stated and not the manner of their statement are to be considered. Amendable defects apparent or suggested by allegations made will be treated as cured. Holcomb et al. v. Forsyth, 216 Ala. 486 , 113 So. 516 ; Singo et al. v. Brainard, 173 Ala. 64 , 55 So. 603 . “The denials of the answer are no longer conclusive, but are to be considered with the affirmative allegations of fact supported by affidavit, and allegations of the bill not denied are to be taken as confessed. Code of 1940, Tit. 7, § 1061; Brown v. Bell, 206 Ala. 182 , 89 So. 659 ; West v. State ex rel. Matthews, 233 Ala. 588 , 173 So. 46 ; Cox v. Lerman, 233 Ala. 58 , 169 So. 724 ; Hancock v. Watt, 233 Ala. 29 , 169 So. 704 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hunter v. Parkman
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.