Towry v. Moore’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently September 2007
10 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 Birmingham Southern R. Co. v. Harrison · Thomas v. Carter · Steele v. Crute · Foster v. Floyd · Alabama Consolidated C. & I. Co. v. Heald
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if you are reasonably satisfied from the evidence that Eva Lou Mason Towry was the owner or the bailee of the car being driven by Joe David Towry, and that the trip being made by Joe David Towry was for her benefit or for her benefit and the benefit of Joe David Towry mutually, then the jury is authorized to find from such evidence that Joe David Towry was the agent of Eva Lou Mason Towry”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. O'BRIEN v. Hafer
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.