Scruggs v. Beason’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently November 2018 · most notably Ayers v. Stidham (1954), West v. West (1949)
45 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 Locklin v. Tucker · Randolph v. Randolph · Walls v. Smith & Co. · Hamby v. Stepleton · City of Selma v. Jones
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * Generally a public nuisance gives no right of action to an individual, but must be abated by process instituted in the name of the state. An individual complaining of a public nuisance must show some special injury to himself different from the common injury to the public. (Citations omitted.)” Scruggs v. Beason, 246 Ala. 405, 407 , 20 So.2d 774, 775 ;”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““A cemetery is a place not only for the burial of the dead but for an expression of love and respect by the living for the dead. Hence there must be accorded to complainants not only the right of burial but also the right to visit, maintain and beautify the graves of relatives interred therein, without obstruction in the public road.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“the only means of entry to and from the graveyard”
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.