Bertolla v. Kaiser’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1984 · most notably National Association for Advancement of Colored People v. Alabama M Flowers (1964), Roan v. Smith (1961)
51 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 Kansas City, Memphis & Birmingham Railroad v. Crocker · King v. Jackson · Phœnix Insurance v. Moog · Sieben v. Torrey · Keene v. Meade
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Assignment of error 1 recites: “ T. The verdict and judgment are contrary to the law and the evidence.’ “Assignments 2 through 9 are to like effect. Such assignments are not sufficient to present any question for our review. King v. Jackson, 264 Ala. 339 , 87 So.2d 623 ; Supreme Court Rule 1, Code 1940, Tit. 7 Appendix.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Roan v. Smith““The rule is well-established that ‘ * * * the acceptance or rejection of evidence not strictly in rebuttal is within the sound discretion of the trial court.’ Sieben v. Torrey, 252 Ala. 675, 677 , 42 So.2d 621, 623 , and authorities there cited.””
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.