Gorum v. Samuel’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently November 1999 · most notably Jones v. Hubbard (1999), LeFlore v. State Ex Rel. Moore (1972)
26 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 Campbell v. Beyers · Nolan v. Moore · Du Pree v. Hart · Webb v. French · Kolb v. Swann Chemical Corporation
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Every court must have authority to correct its own entries, so as to make them speak the truth, even after adjournment of court, on sufficient evidence. The source of this inherent power is justice, and therefore the courts must have some discretion in altering their records after the time when they are said to import absolute verity. Gorum v. Samuel, 274 Ala. 690 , 151 So.2d 393 [1963], and cases 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.