Cloud v. Moon’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently March 1990
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 Phillips v. State · Peterson v. State · Louisville N. R. Co. v. Scott · Alabama Power Company v. Guy · Hamilton v. Browning
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.
“"A self-contradictory statement by a witness who is not a party, whether testified to by him on cross-examination or proven by others is not substantive evidence of the matter asserted, that is, such statement operates only to discredit the witness, and has no other effect; in particular, such statement cannot be the basis of a finding of a fact necessary to the establishment of liability or defense. Hamilton v. Browning, 257 Ala 72, 57 So 2d 530; Ferlise [Ferlesie or Ferlise] v Cook 201 Ala 571, 78 So 915; Thomas Furnace Co v Carroll, 204 Ala 263, 85 So 455; Lynn v State, 37 Ala App 400, 69 So 2d 485, syl 4; Lawson v State, 36 Ala App 438, 57 So 2d 643, syl 4; Anno: 133 ALR 1455 ."”
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.