White v. Manassa’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently September 1998 · most notably Percoff v. Solomon (1953), American Automobile Insurance Co. v. English (1957)
47 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 Alabama State Milk Control Board v. Graham · City of Bessemer v. Bessemer Theatres, Inc. · Florence Gin Co. v. City of Florence · Teal v. Mixon · First Nat. Bank of Dothan v. Fountain Motor Co.
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"We approve the statement made by the Supreme Court of Alabama in the case of White v. Manassa, 252 Ala. 396 , 41 So.2d 395, 397 , `The test of the sufficiency of a complaint in a declaratory judgment proceeding is not whether the complaint shows that the plaintiff will succeed in getting a declaration of rights in accordance with his theory and contention, but whether he is entitled to a declaration of rights at all.'"”
3 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.