Bates v. Rentz’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently June 2013
22 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 A. B. C. Truck Lines, Inc. v. Kenemer · Morgan County v. Hill · Austin v. Tennessee Biscuit Co. · Alabama Power Co. v. Kendrick · Allison v. Owens
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * The mere fact that the court reporter filed the transcript in the clerk’s office eleven days before the appeal was taken, will not vitiate the appeal. It is not the purpose of the statute or the rule to penalize promptness on the part of the reporter or the appellant. The motions are without merit.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McCulley v. Stroud““ ‘It is only when the error complained of “has probably injuriously affected the substantial rights of the parties” that we are authorized to reverse; and this is to be determined “after an examination of the entire cause.” ’ Morgan County v. Hill, 257 Ala. 658 , 60 So.2d 838, 840 .””
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.