Fortson v. Hester’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently October 1975 · most notably McLaney v. Turner (1958), Britton v. Doehring (1970)
42 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 City of Dothan v. Hardy · Godfrey v. Vinson · International Agri. Cor. v. Abercrombie · Indemnity Ins. Co. of North America v. Turnipseed · Citizen's L. H. & P. Co. v. Lee
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * It is a settled rule in this state that when figures are shown which were used by the jury in its deliberations and from these figures a fair inference may be drawn that the verdict was a quotient verdict, the court will so hold and that the verdict was the result of a previous agreement, unless the contrary is shown. Mobile & O. R. Co. v. Watson, 221 Ala. 585 , 130 So. 199 . * * * ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““Wantonness may arise from knowledge that persons, though not seen, are likely to be in a position of danger, and with conscious disregard of known conditions of danger the defendant brings on the disaster.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Britton v. Doehring
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.