Marshall v. Marshall’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently January 1991
6 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 Lewis v. Zell · Graves v. Wildsmith · Crocker v. Lee · Cooper v. Watts · Sington v. Birmingham Ry., Light & Power Co.
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In considering the question of whether there was evidence from which the jury could find for the plaintiffs on the wanton count, this Court must view the evidence most favorable to the plaintiffs. Buchanan v. Vaughn, 260 Ala. 482 , 71 So.2d 56 , and cases cited.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Goldman v. Jameson
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.