McCloud v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently September 1992
10 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 Robinson v. Crotwell · Watts v. Montgomery Traction Co. · McCaleb v. Reed · Washington v. Alabama Mills, Inc. · Francis v. Imperial Sanitary Laundry & Dry Cleaning 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Defendant invokes the principle that the fifteen mile limit does not benefit the plaintiff under the circumstances of this case. The rule is settled by our authorities that although it may be negligence to violate a statute or ordinance, it is not actionable unless it causes injury to one for whose benefit it was enacted. Francis v. Imperial Sanitary Laundry & Dry Cleaning Co. [ 241 Ala. 327 , 2 So.2d 388 ], supra; McCaleb v. Reed, 225 Ala. 564 , 144 So. 28 ; City of Birmingham v. Blood, 228 Ala. 218 , 153 So. 430 ; Watts v. Montgomery Traction Co., 175 Ala. 102 , 57 So. 471 ; Jones and Son v. Lair, 245 Ala. 441 (6), 17 So. 2d 577 .””
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.