Powell v. Powell’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently March 1992 · most notably 56 Ala. App. 318 - Womble v. Womble (1975), International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen & Helpers of America v. Hatas (1971)
44 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 30 Ala. App. 18 - Sowell v. State · Nelson v. Darling Shop of Birmingham, Inc. · Drummond v. Drummond · Bryan v. W. T. Smith Lumber Co. · 40 Ala. App. 80 - Duff 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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"It does not deprive the trial judge of discretion reasonably exercised to limit the range of cross examination in respect to collateral and irrelevant matter. The undue and unnecessary consumption of time in the trial of causes, and the avoidance of multiplied collateral and irrelevant issues [are] committed in the first instance to the wise discretion of the trial judge. Drummond v. Drummond , 212 Ala. 242 , 102 So. 112 ; Sowell v. State , 30 Ala. App. 18 , 199 So. 900 ; Duff v. State , 40 Ala. App. 80 , 111 So.2d 621 ; Nelson v. Darling Shop of Birmingham, Inc. , 275 Ala. 598 , 157 So.2d 23 ."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““Where a decree is a single unit and is erroneous in any respect, the error infects the entire decree and an assignment of error in general terms is sufficient to invite review. * * * ” Powell v. Powell, 285 Ala. 230, 233 , 231 So.2d 103, 105 . See also Auto-Owners Insurance Co. v. Stokes, 284 Ala. 537, 545 , 226 So.2d 320 ; Wiggins v. Stapleton Baptist Church, 282 Ala. 255 , 210 So.2d 814 ; Bryan v. W. T. Smith Lumber Co., 278 Ala. 538 , 179 So.2d 287 ; Matthews v. Matthews, 292 Ala. 1 , 288 So.2d 110, 115 ; Robinson v. Murphy, 69 Ala. 543, 545 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““The right of cross-examination, thorough and sifting, belongs to every party as to the witnesses called against him.””
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.