Riddle v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently September 1979
18 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 Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron Co. v. Alexander · Tuscaloosa Veneer Co. v. Martin · Benoit Coal Mining Co. v. Moore · Bell v. Tennessee Coal, Iron R. Co. · Warrior Stone & Contracting Co. v. De Foor
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Plaintiff, Nora Irene Cobb, as Administratrix of the estate of Burmon Hurlen Cobb, deceased, claims of the defendants the sum of Two Hundred Thousand Dollars ($200,000.00) as damages, for that heretofore on to-wit, December 14, 1962, plaintiff’s intestate was an employee of the • defendant, South- ' eastern Coal and Iron Company, a corporation; plaintiff avers that on said • date her intestate was not being directly - paid wages by the defendant, South- •' eastern CoaP -and Iron Company, and ■that said defendant was not the employer of her intestate at said time within the meaning of the Workmen’s Compensation Act of Alabama; plaintiff avers that her intestate’s duties to the defendant, Southeastern Coal and Iron Company, included the maintenance of heavy motorized equipment belonging to said defendant, and plaintiff avers that on and prior to December 14, 1962, the defendant, Thompson Tractor Company, a corporation, for a valuable consideration, had agreed with the defendant Southeastern Coal and Iron Company, to provide to the said defendants the services of a master diesel mechanic trained in the proper and safe use of equipment and methods employed to repair heavy motorized equipment to repair and maintain the defendant, Southeastern Coal and Iron Company’s heavy motorized equipment located at said defendant’s strip ore mine at Dudley, Alabama, in the County of Tuscaloosa, State of Alabama; plaintiff avers that on said date and prior thereto her intestate, in accordance ”
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.