Ex Parte Driver’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently September 2015 · most notably Dollar v. McKinney (1958), 33 Ala. App. 269 - Bankhead v. State (1947)
30 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 Knowles v. Blue · Elyton Land Co. v. Morgan & Co. · Ex Parte Central Alabama Dry Goods Co. · Hutchison & Wilson v. Powell · Lutz v. Van Heynigen Brokerage 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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'It must be shown that the expected evidence will be material and competent; there must be the probability that the testimony can be obtained at a future date to which the cause may be continued or postponed; due diligence must have been exercised by the movant to secure the absent witness or evidence; the expected evidence must be credible and will probably affect the result of the trial; it must not be merely cumulative or in the nature of impeachment; and the motion for continuance must not be made merely for purposes of delay.'”
5 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.