English v. Jacobs’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably W. S. Fowler Rental Equipment Company v. Skipper (1963), 527 So. 2d 102 - Reed v. Brunson (1988)
4 federal appellate · 48 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 Griffin Lumber Co. v. Harper · Duke v. Gaines · Gulf, M. O. R. Co. v. Sims · Birmingham Electric Co. v. Mann · W. M. Templeton & Son v. David
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“' 'knowledge of existing conditions and consciousness that ... injury will likely or probably result.' '”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage““ * * * in considering the sufficiency of the evidence of wantonness to be submitted to the jury, this court must accept the adduced evidence most favorable to the plaintiff as true, and indulge such reasonable inferences as the jury was free to draw from the evidence. English v. Jacobs, 263 Ala. 376 , 82 So.2d 542 ; McNickle v. Stripling, 259 Ala. 576 , 67 So.2d 832 . * * *"”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"From the previously cited authorities, it was reasonably inferable that this inexperienced driver was conscious that her attempt to negotiate this dangerous stretch of road might very likely result in injury. Being conscious of this likelihood of injury, she elected to proceed on her hazardous course after two warnings. This course of conduct resulted in the death of the plaintiff's intestate. We are therefore not prepared to say that the learned trial judge committed fatal error in submitting the issue of wantonness to the jury over defendant's request for the affirmative charge. * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.