Bell v. Nichols’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
76 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 76 later decisions — most recently June 1972 · most notably Smith v. Smith (1950), INTERNATIONAL UNION, ETC. v. Russell (1956)
76 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 Cobb v. Malone · Southern Railway Co. v. Kirsch · Pollard v. Rogers · Armour & Co. v. Cartledge · Franklin Fire Ins. Co. v. Slaton
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 76 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The power and duty of trial courts to set aside verdicts and grant new trials and the power of appellate courts to review and revise the ruling of the trial court in this regard has been often stated. We see no reason to re-state these well-known principles, but content ourselves with a citation of some of the authorities in which the principles are stated. Cobb v. Malone and Collins, 92 Ala. 630 , 9 So. 738 ; Franklin Fire Insurance Co. v. Slaton, 240 Ala. 560 , 200 So. 564 ; Pollard v. Rogers, 234 Ala. 92 , 173 So. 881 ; Watkins v. Reinhart, 243 Ala. 243 , 9 So.2d 113 ; Armour & Co. v. Cartledge, 234 Ala. 644 , 176 So. 334 . “We have considered the evidence with painstaking care and have concluded that there was evidence which, if believed, authorized the verdict which was rendered. We cannot affirm that the preponderance of the evidence against the verdict is so decided as to clearly convince us that it is wrong and unjust. Under all the circumstances, we do not feel authorized to reverse the judgment of the trial court in refusing a new trial. Southern R. Co. v. Kirsch, 150 Ala. 659 , 43 So. 796 ; Gulf States Creosoting Co. v. Jones, 241 Ala. 9 , 1 So.2d 379, 381 .””
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.