34 Ala. App. 329 - Prosser v. Bailes’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
July 1983
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Hafer v. Cole · National Bank of Boaz v. Marshall County · Rice v. Tuscaloosa County · La Rue v. Loveman, Joseph & Loeb · Gossett v. Morrow
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Detinue is an action ex delicto, not ex contractu. The gist of the action is the wrongful detention of plaintiff’s property.””
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.