Cooper v. Grubbs’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently February 1975
6 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 Louisville N. R. Co. v. Scott · Alabama Power Co. v. Talmadge · Carter v. Chambers · United States Steel Co. v. Butler · Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. Sullivan Timber 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This court has held that the action of the trial court in granting the motion for a new trial will not be disturbed, if any ground of the motion was well taken. Louisville & Nashville R. Co. v. Scott, 232 Ala. 284 , 167 So. 572 ; Gissendanner v. Temples, 232 Ala. 608 , 169 So. 231 .” Id., at 520, 80 So.2d at 285 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The general rule is when a witness is accessible to both parties, or his evidence would be cumulative, neither party can comment on his absence. Coosa Portland Cement Co. v. Crankfield, 202 Ala. 369 , 80 So. 451 ; Louisville & Nashville R. R. Co. v. Sullivan Timber Co., 126 Ala. 95 , 27 So. 760 .””
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.