Barfield v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently January 1999
20 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 Boyette v. Bradley · Sovereign Camp, W. O. W. v. Davis · Nelson v. Lee · Lehigh Portland Cement Company v. Dobbins · McRee v. Woodward Iron Company
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[1,2] A hypothetical question to an expert should incorporate sufficient facts in evidence upon which an expert opinion can be fairly based. Alabama Power Co. v. Bruce, 209 Ala. 423 , 96 So. 346 ; Sovereign Camp, W .O. W. v. Davis, 242 Ala. 235 , 5 So.2d 480 . The frame and substance of hypothetical questions to expert witnesses is left largely to the sound discretion of the trial court, and the ruling of the court in such matters will not be disturbed unless such discretion is abused. Lehigh Portland Cement Co. v. Dobbins, 282 Ala. 513 , 213 So.2d 246 .” Barfield v. Wright, 286 Ala. 402, 405 , 240 So.2d 593, 595 .”
2 later decisions 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.