Winter v. Cain’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently June 2001
16 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 Yick Wo v. Hopkins · Ball v. Jones · Askew v. Hale County · Ex parte Cowert · Mitchell v. City of Birmingham
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘The result of our decisions is that the lower proprietor in an incorporated town or city can build a wall or other obstruction on his property extending to the line between it and higher property and thereby prevent water from passing from the higher property over his property, although that is the only way in which the surface water can pass. This is so simply because the area happens to be incorporated in a town or city. KayNoojin Development Co. v. Hackett, 253 Ala. 588 , 45 So.2d 792 ; Drummond v. Franck, 252 Ala. 474 , 41 So.2d 268 ; Shanan v. Brown, 179 Ala. 425 , 60 So.2d 891 ; 43 L.R.A., N.S., 792; Hall v. Rising, 141 Ala. 431 , 37 So. 586 .’ Burson v. Saliba, 270 Ala. 212, 214 , 116 So.2d 609 .” Ex parte Tennessee Coal, Iron & R. R. Co., 206 Ala. 403 , 90 So. 876 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hendrix v. Creel“"The legislature shall not have power to authorize any municipal corporation to pass any laws inconsistent with the general laws of this state."”
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.