Skinner v. Todd’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently April 1991
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 Floyd v. Green · Cox v. Parker · Cherokee County v. Cunningham · County Board of Education of Clarke County v. Oliver · Smith v. State
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.
“"Furthermore, although we think the decree of the trial court giving its reasons [was] a proper basis for its conclusions, statements by the trial judge showing the basis on which his conclusion of fact is founded are not part of the judgment. "The question for our decision is whether the decree of the trial court is correct, not whether the ground on which the trial court professed to proceed is tenable."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Furthermore, although we think the decree of the trial court giving its reasons [was] a proper basis for its conclusions, statements by the trial judge showing the basis on which his conclusion of fact is founded are not part of the judgment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[w]hat constitutes undue influence in procuring a deed depends upon the facts and circumstances of each case. Jones v. Boothe , 270 Ala. 420 , 119 So.2d 203 .”
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.