Donaldson v. Buck’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently May 2016
14 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 Hagler v. Gilliland · Commonwealth v. Spencer · Alabama Power Co. v. Talmadge · Johnson v. Battles · State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance v. Humphres
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that a party cannot comment in argument upon the failure of his opponent to call a particular witness if the witness is equally accessible to both parties.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““ ‘. There is a rule, and a just one, that if a party has a witness possessing peculiar knowledge of the transaction, and supposed to be favorable to him, and fails to produce such witness when he has the means of doing so, this, in the absence of all explanation, is ground of suspicion against him that such better informed testimony would make against him.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kulakowski v. Cowart“It is clear in Alabama that, where there is a general verdict absolving the defendant from liability, reversal cannot be based upon the action of a trial court in rejecting or admitting evidence that goes merely to the extent of injury and damages.”
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.