Britton v. Doehring’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 89 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 101 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably Kilcrease v. Harris (1972), Waterson v. General Motors Corp. (1988)
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 89 state decisions — followed in 19 states
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 Miller v. Miller · 140 Ind. App. 139 - Kavanagh v. Butorac · Alabama Great Southern Railroad Co. v. Bishop · 91 Ill. App. 2d 1 - Mount v. McClellan · Lewis v. Zell
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 101 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The rule in this state is that in civil cases the question must go to the jury if the evidence or the reasonable inferences therefrom furnish a mere gleam, glim mer, spark, the least bit, the smallest trace, a scintilla, in support of the theory of the complaint. — Lankford v. Mong, 283 Ala. 24 , 214 So.2d 301 , and cases cited ***. ***" Union Central Life Insurance Company v. Scott, 286 Ala. 10, 13 , 236 So.2d 328, 332 (1970).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Myers v. Evans“[W]here there is an opportunity to observe, though slight, a witness may testify as to what he observed, and the circumstances attending his observation merely go to the weight of the evidence, which is, of course, for the jury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the doctrine of mitigation of damages, frequently called avoidable consequences, applies ... to a plaintiff's conduct [s]ubsequent to the wrongful act of the defendant”
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.