33 Ala. App. 301 - Snellings v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1964 · most notably National Association for Advancement of Colored People v. Alabama M Flowers (1964), 35 Ala. App. 409 - Arrick v. Fanning (1950)
36 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 Suell v. Derricott · Kinnon v. L. & N. R. R. · Hall v. Pearce · 29 Ala. App. 411 - William E. Harden, Inc. v. Harden · Life Casualty Ins. Co. of Tennessee v. Womack
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In the hurry of perfecting an appeal it is the usual practice of lawyers to assign as error all matters that might be even faintly meritorious. Upon further study while preparing his brief he may conclude that, in his anxiety to fully cover all possible errors in his assignments, he has included some that are untenable. These he is free to abandon simply by not carrying them forward in his brief and argument, for as a corollary to the rule that errors not assigned will not be considered on appeal is the proposition that assignments not specified in the brief are considered as abandoned.””
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.