Howell v. Roueche’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently July 2009 · most notably Mobile City Lines, Inc. v. Proctor (1961), 403 So. 2d 165 - Perdue v. Gates (1981)
34 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 · Crocker v. Lee · Alabama Power Co. v. Buck · Jones v. Strickland · Mobile Light R. Co. v. Nicholas
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"A driver in such a situation cannot gamble upon being able to stop his car after he suddenly sees a child in such a dangerous situation but the fact that he is driving into a zone where he knows that children are likely to be on the roadway provided for the car or in dangerous proximity thereto, fastens the duty upon him to observe due caution to conserve the safety of such child. Mobile Light & R. Co. v. Nicholas, 232 Ala. 213 , 167 So. 298 [(1936)]."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"From the evidence we are unable to say that the appellant did anything that a reasonably prudent man would not do under the circumstances and we cannot say that he failed to do what a reasonably prudent man should have done under the circumstances."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“We must not allow a verdict to stand which is rested on pure speculation and conjecture.”
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.