State v. Ward’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently January 1994
10 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 Cooper v. Watts · Water Works & Sanitary Sewer Board of the City of Montgomery v. Norman · Popwell v. Shelby County · Pearson v. Birmingham Transit Company · Wilbanks 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"`In several cases we have said in effect that where the issue involved in the trial of a condemnation case relates solely to damages and compensation to which a landowner is entitled, and the amount of the verdict of the jury is not questioned on appeal, assignments of error relating to the correctness of jury charges, jury arguments, and rulings on evidence which deal with damages and compensation, cannot work a reversal. State v. LeCroy, 279 Ala. 428 , 186 So.2d 142 ; State v. Dunlap, 279 Ala. 418 , 186 So.2d 132 ; State v. Jackson, 279 Ala. 425 , 186 So.2d 139 ; State v. Young, 279 Ala. 426 , 186 So.2d 140 ; State v. Graf, 280 Ala. 71 , 189 So.2d 912 ; State v. Peinhardt, 270 Ala. 627 , 120 So.2d 728 ; State v. East Woodland Hills, Inc., 281 Ala. 430 , 203 So.2d 447 . "`For other cases to like effect see Alabama v. Ferguson, supra [ 269 Ala. 44 , 110 So.2d 280 ]; Cooper v. Watts, 280 Ala. 236 , 191 So.2d 519 ; Southern Railway Co. v. Edmunds, 280 Ala. 247 , 192 So.2d 451 .. . .'" State v. Ward, supra, 293 Ala. at 519 , 306 So.2d at 267 (1975). See also State v. Hines, 293 Ala. 509 , 306 So.2d 259 (1975); State v. Pugh, 293 Ala. 593 , 308 So.2d 248 (1975).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Long · State v. Pugh“'Where the appeal is from the ruling on the motion for a new trial, that ruling is the only matter which is subject to review on appeal, and assignments of error relating to rulings in the trial itself will not be considered unless they were included in the motion for a new trial. '”
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.